polish off

Her eight-foot downhill birdie putt didn't drop on Friday, but her closing par polished off a satisfying round.

At first, it took me about 10 days to polish off a bottle of vodka.

South Africa had been polished off in the space of an hour as Cummins became the eighth Australian bowler to reach the milestone of 300 Test wickets.

“Paradise” is not “about” climate collapse or nuclear weapons or a giant asteroid or an unstoppable virus, or any of the things that typically polish off the world in postapocalyptic fiction.

A disproportionate number not only did not even passively resist but showed themselves eager to lick the polish off Hitler’s jackboots, if necessary.