mop up

It was like trying to mop up a lake with a bath sponge.

John went to grab towels out of the bathroom to mop up the blood. When he returned she was at the man again with her knife.

I'm going to get sued either way by fifty people, but I don't want to spend my life trying to mop up a total disaster on Wall Street.

The three times I used the juicer, it leaked all over the place, and I was left with a mess to mop up.

If the Asian central banks mop up the hot money and buy US treasuries with it, it depresses the US bond yield and boosts the US economy.

Thus, once the panic recedes and this excess demand for liquidity shrinks, central banks can and will mop up all this excess liquidity.

Hairdressers, pet groomers and farmers worldwide are collecting hair and fur to help mop up the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

What remains is the final mop-up operation to ensure the demise of the dark cabal.

The Fed has long argued that central bankers should not try to prick asset bubbles, but must mop up the mess promptly when they burst.

I learned to make the bed I slept in, and wash the glass I used, and mend what I broke, and mop up where I spilled.

The second rationale has some merit provided the Bank of Japan really does resist the urge to mop up any liquidity.

So antioxidants, which mop up the reactive oxygen compounds, may seem like a logical solution.

The central bank can try to " sterilise " the impact of bigger reserves by selling securities to mop up the excess liquidity.

That may require new tools: the Federal Reserve would gain from being able to issue bonds that could mop up liquidity.

The bloody mop-up fighting was left to the Soviets and lasted until the end of the war.

Yet it would be unwise for policymakers to hope that stronger demand will mop up all the jobless.

Because inflation remained low, the central banks have been slow to mop up the excess liquidity.

You will not default on yourself. . . bond transactions do not "mop up liquidity. "

Politicians may lean on the board to hire their idiot nephews, chase visions of national greatness or mop up the jobless masses.

I learned to make the r4 bed I slept in, and wash the glass I used, and mend what I broke, and mop up where I spilled.

The central bank issues bills to mop up the liquidity created from buying reserves, which obliging banks hold at low rates.

Central banks issue local-currency bonds to 'mop up' the liquidity created when they buy dollars with newly created local currency.

And are they willing to mop up the millions of Cadbury shares that will flood the market when the arbs turn tail and run?

The US government will soon unveil details of a plan to mop up toxic financial assets, to encourage the sector to lend again.

Some speculated he was shot by an infantryman who had stumbled upon him during mop-up operations.

Instead, he felt that central banks should wait to mop up the mess once the bubble had burst.

The Benefit: Basil is rich in antioxidants that mop up cell-damaging free radicals inside the body.

What these researchers have designed is a drug that helps the body mop up bacterial toxins.

If central banks all print money in unison, and don't mop up excess liquidity, then the result could be a worldwide monetary fillip.

Traders said they expect the central bank to sell more short-term debt in the coming weeks as it moves to mop up capital inflows.

That could mop up excess stock but, as with its gold-backed cousins, it is really a way to create more investor demand and support prices.

And with so many inexperienced venture firms flocking east, it seems likely there will be some big losses to mop up later.

targeted "mop-up" campaigns once wild poliovirus transmission is limited to a specific focal area.

We used naan bread to mop up the mutton curry served at a nearby transport cafe.

US firm Genzyme has started recruiting for a trial involving a gene therapy designed to mop up VEGF.

Their solution is to mop up the radioactivity in the water with plastic.

If the Fed is too slow to mop up, the economy could theoretically overheat and lead to an inflation comeback.

They have issued bills and bonds to mop up any rise in base money that would have occurred from the accumulation of foreign reserves.

Don't mop up the spilt milk; the cat will lick it up .

The idea of using human hair to mop up oil spills was the brain child of US hair stylist Phil McCory.

big miners have eschewed using their precious resources to mop up medium - sized companies on the cheap, as some had predicted.

The Totenkopf Division was ordered to follow behind and mop up Red Army stragglers in Lithuanian forests.

You know the drill! First we mop up, then we grab the survivors.

Japan's experience shows that governments should increase borrowing to mop up private-sector savings.

Make-work schemes mop up some of the jobless, but may blot a curriculum vitae.

A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars.

To minimize damage, quickly move your first squad to assist these reinforcements and mop up as quickly as possible.

The RRR changes are designed to mop up liquidity flowing in through the external accounts.

It issues bonds in an effort to mop-up, or "sterilise" , the liquidity.

Life is like a mop, using today to mop up yesterday and wipe out tomorrow.

These rods, made of neutron-absorbing materials such as boron, mop up excess neutrons and quench the chain reaction.

Vegetation growing on this land would mop up carbon dioxide.

The pancreas releases a massiveamount of insulin to mop up the excess.

When all is going well, it lets cells know when they need to mop up glucose from the blood, usually just after a person has eaten.

The street - cleaners then move in to mop up the accumulated rubbish and dirt caused by the night - long revellery.

Would America trust Chinato mop up North Korea's plutonium and enriched uranium?

That's good news in the effort to mop up a persistant pollutant.

The idea would be to prevent, rather than mop up after, economic crises.

But the interest payments on domestic bonds issued to mop up capital inflows can have a heavy fiscal cost.

When my time is over, I mop up my face and reassemble my hair into a ponytail.

The idea is that you would inject the particles, the particles would mop up the virions in the way an antibody would.

Hotkey them and use the Stratofighter at your own discretion, so that you can mop up Air Units effectively.

In China, they will try to "mop up" the Communists and entice the Kuomintang to capitulate .

The most recent of these new cases had onset of paralysis on 28 May, before the immunization 'mop-up' campaign held on 31 May to 2 June.

Some victory conditions changed. For example in Conquest you only have to capture all the other capitals. Eliminates boring mop up phase.

You'd better mop up that pool of water on the floor before mother sees it.

"China's central bank has to mop up liquidity and the US Treasuries are the most important option, " Yin told AFP.

Please mop up any water that spills.

It will still take some time to mop up these enemy remnants, but not long.

Two companies were left to mop up.

Ted Hamm uses a firehose to mop up hot spots after the Station Fire swept through his property August 30, 2009 in Acton, California.

We must mop up the arrears of work .

The most recent case had onset of paralysis on 31 May, just before the immunization 'mop-up' campaign held on 31 May to 2 June.

In 2005, for example, Uganda was forced to issue such bonds to mop up excess liquidity to the tune of $700 million.

You go to the source, you don't mop up until you have fixed the actual leak.

mop up the last few bits of work

mop up the spilt milk;

Bonds issued to mop up currency inflows are paying 1. 5-1. 65