finishing touch(es)

The final stroke(s) that ensure completion or perfection. The term is derived from painting, that is, the last stroke of the artist’s brush, and was soon transferred to any creative effort, ranging from cake-baking to assembling a costume. Its earliest appearance in print dates from the mid-eighteenth century, and Eric Partridge concluded it became a cliché within a hundred years.

词组	finishing touch(es)
释义	finishing touch(es) finishing touch(es) The final stroke(s) that ensure completion or perfection. The term is derived from painting, that is, the last stroke of the artist’s brush, and was soon transferred to any creative effort, ranging from cake-baking to assembling a costume. Its earliest appearance in print dates from the mid-eighteenth century, and Eric Partridge concluded it became a cliché within a hundred years. See also: finish The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: arrive (somewhere) (up)on the stroke of (some time) arrive on the stroke of some time arrive (somewhere) at the stroke of (some time) stroke of business somewhere brush away upon stroke it at a/one stroke at one stroke
随便看	too good to be true too hot for somebody too hot for (someone or something) too hot to handle too hot to hold (someone) too hot to hold you tooie took took the words right out of my mouth tookus tool tool around tooling too little too late too little, too late too long; didn't read tool up too many balls in the air too many chefs in the kitchen too many chiefs and not enough Indians too many cooks too many cooks in the kitchen too many cooks spoil the broth too many cooks spoil the soup too many cooks spoil the stew