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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a finishing touch" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a final detail or addition that completes or enhances something.
Example: "She added a finishing touch to the painting with a few delicate brush strokes."
Alternatives: "final detail" or "last touch".
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It puts a finishing touch on my project.
Also erotic: he now took a resident mistress, a finishing touch to the restorative of Italy.
As a finishing touch two glass emeralds are pasted onto his turban.
I'm going to finish this game".' A finishing touch is a romantic notion now.
As a finishing touch, you introduce some trivial mistakes into the document, which the suspect will correct and initial.
Or use phyllo to make small fruit tarts; drizzle melted chocolate over the top as a finishing touch.
As a finishing touch, he pasted on a postage-stamp mustache and adopted a cane as an all-purpose prop.
As a finishing touch, the Mac Pro, like its ancestor, is designed and assembled in the US.
The oil is a condiment and is meant to add a finishing touch, much like Asian toasted sesame oil.
But the Marlins deal, he said, inspired his bosses, Paul Beeston and Alex Anthopoulos, to add Dickey as a finishing touch to their makeover.
Both products are smoked over cherry wood and, because they are costly and intense, should be used sparingly as a finishing touch.
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