"clean up one's plate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: cleans up one's plate [present, singular, third-person], cleaning up one's plate [participle, present], cleaned up one's plate [participle, past], cleaned up one's plate [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=clean up one's plate}} clean up one's plate (third-person singular simple present cleans up one's plate, present participle cleaning up one's plate, simple past and past participle cleaned up one's plate)
  1. To eat all the food on one's plate. Synonyms: clean one's plate
    Sense id: en-clean_up_one's_plate-en-verb-~lgJIrVF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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        "To eat all the food on one's plate."
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