sew something up

sew something up informal bring something to a favourable conclusion 〈非正式〉确保…的成功： they had the match sewn up by half-time. 上半场比赛结束时, 他们就稳操胜券了。 ■ achieve exclusive control over something 垄断： the US courier market has been more or less sewn up by two companies. 美国快递市场几乎由两家公司垄断。

• catch someone off guard
• brain trusters
• set / lay / clap eyes on sb / sth
• broken-mouthed
• antiantibody
• know ... from
• stilt pertrel
• kelp bass
• antiscorbutics
• acid-houses
• respiratory arrest
• all of a piece with
• chondrification
• expiscated
• ion pumps
• semierect
• Dunham, Katherine
• petermen
• plasmoquine
• sleeter
• Helicoplacoidea
• Kenya
• chargehands
• Liberty Island
• Pizarro, Francisco
• soufrlere
• from soup to nuts
• Spanglish
• be hairy about/at the fetlocks
• amides
• pleural cavity
• figure sb/sth↔out
• Coterminous.
• utilities
• pantocrators
• hydrosols
• per an.
• serial killer
• time copy
• strepitant
• North River
• brachycephalism
• idolisings
• splatter
• go a bomb
• antiport
• Thymine Dimers
• de-banked
• deep therapy
• crossbelts
• theosophists
• Osphronemidae
• colossus
• circular letter of credit
• cutlet sandwich
• sailyards
• forest wind
• sufferers
• honeycomb coral
• drive someone to his wits' end
• red-blindnesses
• enlink
• be better off
• not / never in a million years
• extreme line casing
• street Arab
• maritime position
• loper
• chop out
• inflammable
• bilabial
• Taiwan Strait
• subeditors
• MCU
• shell road
• angular leaf spot
• on someone's part
• HESH
• it never rains but it pours
• HPA
• invigoratingly
• multitextural
• recifes
• get into a row
• slouch
• Englerulaceae
• is
• psychic surgeries
• one's name is dirt (或 mud)
• man-milliner
• debt collector
• cresset
• yellowcake
• mountain goat
• ailurophobias
• grubbers
• prove oneself (或 be) a match for someone
• pressure tubing
• leak away
• overcastings