polish off

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To finish completely, especially a food (polish the plate with one's tongue) or liquor

They polished off the last of the cake.

To remove by polishing (rubbing with a fine abrasive)

White rice is rice that has had the brownish hull polished off leaving just the white inner part of the grain.

finish, complete; kill, execute
If you polish off food or drink, you eat or drink all of it, or finish it. No matter what he is offered to eat he polishes it off in an instant He polished off his scotch and slammed the glass down
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