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Touch Up (To)

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To touch a horse with a whip for greater speed. To touch up a picture, etc., is to give it a few touches to improve it.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Torture
Tory
Totem Pole (A)
Totemism
Toto Cœlo
Totus Teres atque Rotundus
Touch
Touch
Touch At (To)
Touch Bottom (To)
Touch Up (To)
Touch and Go (A)
Touchet
Touchstones
Touchy
Tour
Tour de Force
Tourlourou
Tournament or Tournay
Tournemine
Tours