to deal successfully with a disagreement or problem, especially by removing the last remaining difficulties
to improve something, to get rid of imperfections from something
Dr Ottershaw exclaims as you step forward for the umpteenth time to iron out his difficulties.
Spreading the note on the desk, she used her hands to iron out the creases.
The liver takes the iron out and stores it for future use, then breaks the squarish molecule that is left.
There were too many much more pressing matters to iron out.
They started rehearsing the Christmas concert well in advance in order to iron out the kinks by December 20.
They’re meeting in Berlin to iron out the final details of the contract.
irons out
ironing out
ironed out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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