tidying-up

Being as truthful as the tidying-up exercise of biography will allow means not coming to any conclusions.

Two Lives « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Nearly two-thirds of regulations specifically aimed at shop owners will be scrapped or reformed, as part of a bureaucratic tidying-up exercise by ministers.

'Red-tape challenge' to liberate retailers from archaic regulations 2011

Just when disaster seems to be inevitable as mother returns, the Cat unveils his tidying-up tricks.

Recommended reads: ages 5–7 2011

A spokesman for News International called this move a tidying-up operation related to Mr. Murdoch's move to New York and to the appointment of Tom Mockridge as chief executive of News International.

James Murdoch to Leave Glaxo Board Jeanne Whalen 2012

One prize thus to be gained is to improve our chances of securing a government which will allow a referendum on his ‘tidying-up exercise’ so that we can see if the British people agree with him or not.

Just Desserts for Author of 'Tidying-up Exercise' 2008

One prize thus to be gained is to improve our chances of securing a government which will allow a referendum on his ‘tidying-up exercise’ so that we can see if the British people agree with him or not.

Archive 2008-01-20 2008

Friday was traditionally a quiet, tidying-up sort of day and Joanne was officially not supposed to be at work but she loved the Friday-morning peruse-the-paper get-together.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

In the first flush of pleasure at the scalping of Peter Hain, I had quite forgotten his rôle in the drawing up of the EU Constitution, during which he allowed a particularly large whopper to pass his lips, one of positively Goebbels-like ‘Big Lie’ proportions, to the effect that said constitution was no more than a ‘tidying-up exercise’.

Archive 2008-01-20 2008

In the first flush of pleasure at the scalping of Peter Hain, I had quite forgotten his rôle in the drawing up of the EU Constitution, during which he allowed a particularly large whopper to pass his lips, one of positively Goebbels-like ‘Big Lie’ proportions, to the effect that said constitution was no more than a ‘tidying-up exercise’.

Just Desserts for Author of 'Tidying-up Exercise' 2008

Nevertheless, with a touchiness that aside from being quite novel for her had actually seized hold of the entire family, she made sure that this tidying-up remained her bailiwick.

The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000