hoover up

Well the first difference is the "damage" done was hoovered up.

In short order, he hoovered up 70 pieces, some with paint barely dry.

You go down and bring the hoover up?

One was hoovering up a plate of sausage and chips while reading the Sun.

So it was Margaret that hoovered up almost all our bucket of vegetables.

She hoovered up information about myriad conflicts from books and museums.

It didn't leave many more shares to hoover up.

I've hoovered up you can't bring them in here!

Perhaps it's hiding somewhere so it doesn't get hoovered up.

The amount reflects the number of securities the Fed has hoovered up in an attempt to support economic growth.

"The big growers use machines that hoover up everything," he explains as we look out over the 22 acres of vineyards.

The agencies hoovered up huge fees for rating those products in what was a massive conflict of interest.

"The writing was so good - whenever Jennifer is in a situation, she hoovers up information or bits of conversation and uses them."

Those who teach in our comprehensives are hoovering up vast amounts of alcohol.

The recent banking crisis saw the smaller, more regional building societies hoovered up, because they were in difficulties.

That behind there it wouldn't get hoovered up.

If he hoovers up a lot of films, the ones he declines are equally interesting.

He asked if I hoovered up, washed up.

He hoovered up the dregs of his coffee and scurried out of the cafe.

As I write, harlequins are out there right now, hoovering up the aphids on my gooseberries.

Nothing goes to waste as different birds hoover up at ground level but presumably this puts them at greater risk from cats etc'.

Can't you see that on the one hand they sell paper whilst furiously hoovering up physical as rock bottom prices.

Their mouths gape, hoovering up the microscopic nutrients brought into the atoll by the ocean.

Hoovering up endless short story SF anthologies as a teenager certainly worked for me.

The historic part of town (called Old Town) is touristy and hoovers up people right off the interstate.