polish up
Make it shine
Polish up means to improve or refine something through practice or attention: I need to polish up my Spanish before the trip.
The phrase suggests bringing something back to a better state rather than learning from scratch—you polish up skills that have gone rusty, manners that have slipped, or a presentation that needs tightening.
She polished up her résumé before applying.
refine
Remove impurities from
sharpen · touch up · spruce up · tidy up · clean up · brush up · fine-tune · revise · edit · finalize
buff
Avid fan; also burnish
wax · brighten · restore · clean · smooth · lustrous · gleaming · sparkling · sheen · brilliant
- cleanlinessclean, cleanliness, clean up, dirty, neatness
- improvementget better, improvement, do better, enhance, make progress
polish, polished, polishing, unpolished, polisher, polishes, repolish, repolished, repolishing