tie up loose ends

While mail-in ballots have reduced to a slow trickle in recent days, the margins are tight enough that campaigns are working to tie up loose ends like unresolved signature challenges, but not so close that any district currently triggers a recount.

The House Democrats’ effort to skirt the Republican no votes is now before the state Senate, along with other legislation meant to tie up loose ends on the state’s spending plan.

The film’s refusal to tie up loose ends has already inspired comparisons to Bong Joon Ho’s “Memories of Murder” and David Fincher’s “Zodiac,” two of modern cinema’s great cold-case classics.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the second grand jury appeared to be an "effort to tie up loose ends."

After receiving potentially life-changing news, Costello attempts to tie up loose ends but slowly reignites bad habits.