He gave it a good mopping.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Whoever takes control, will more likely begin mopping up this mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates: Next president likely to take 'sensible approach' to Iraq] Reference

For those who looked to the media for information, traps were continually sprung, and now the journos are engaged in mopping-up operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

The final round would be what Mchunu described as a mopping-up operation in areas the IEC had been unable to reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He's kind of mopping up the floor with his critics as well as Jeanne Moos shows us.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2009] Reference

His stye of "mopping" is gonna run us all through the danged "wringer!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Kudos to NR for extending the "mopping" analogy to cheerleaders and leaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference

And I was kind of mopping up some of the attitudes I had encountered over the previous five or six years.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

  And the old dude mopping the floor kept sneezing.    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK] Reference

The rest is mere mopping up, military officials said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebel Connection] Reference

"I spent about 10 hours a week mopping things up," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins] Reference

Paul dropped it when he was mopping the blood from his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

The old guy who was mopping, sneezed on the back of Jack's neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK] Reference

He was puffing now, mopping rivulets of perspiration from his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police Your Planet] Reference

But with so much mopping up left to do, there's little chance of that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mladic: The Serb Who Calls The Shots] Reference

They are, as Dan Quayle noted, mopping up after his mess, "true heroes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Values?] Reference

  La Donna smiled nicely, but not too nicely, and went back to mopping.    From Wordnik.com.  [t let Your Daughters Grow up to be Cowdykes] Reference

"Look here," he declared, vigorously mopping his sock with a handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

If you're like most people, mopping the floor is one of your least favorite chores.    From Wordnik.com.  [This week in safety: Mop recall may have owners steamed] Reference

The Army is consolidating its hold on northern Iraq, mopping up pockets of resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush's Rude Surprise] Reference

She began mopping up the spill with a paper napkin, but Herb reached out and stopped her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early One Morning at Denny's] Reference

She was on her knees in an instant, confused, apologetic, mopping up the puddle with a towel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded and the eastern US is mopping up after hurricane Earl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mozambique's food riots ? the true face of global warming] Reference

"What is it?" she asked crisply, mopping her warm face after a hasty survey of the small patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

At 62, Jin Matsushita has gone back to work, mopping floors in a housing complex near his apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Decade] Reference

He and others say Yates spends her time working in the prison garden, mopping floors and doing laundry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrea Yates Redux] Reference

He had recovered from his secret emotion, but he was still mopping the perspiration from his bald brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference

Two of my working-mother friends told me they were mopping floors and folding laundry after midnight last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Failure Of Feminism] Reference

  La Donna had spent twenty minutes in some kind of trance, mopping one spot on the black and white tiled floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry, A Slow Learning Curve] Reference

The clock is ticking for him to find the natural father before Cally adopts the baby and he'sleft mopping up the gunge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch this] Reference

Now there is a danger of the opposite tendency, of thinking that the war on terrorism is now a mere mopping-up operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terror Stalks The Terrorist] Reference

The temperature had dropped to about 90 and some of the corduroy-clad farm kids were mopping sweaty brows with handkerchiefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's 100 degrees, so don't forget your corduroy jacket] Reference

Itstruck me they would have been as good for mopping tears as they were for binding gorse-wrenched ankles during cliff-top rescues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Mangan: I say, chaps, the queerest thing has happened…] Reference

Susan subsided, mopping her moist forehead as if her oratorical effort had occupied an hour, rather than a trifle over thirty seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference