Yesterday, we Yankee fans yearned for two runs, then one run, to tie things up and get ready to win, but never got them.

"Now, that's really starting to tie things up," he said.

No, we'd already moved past the sensitive stuff; we were just tying things up.

AH of which put pressure on Ben to tie things up quickly.

Stay right there for a bit while I tie things up!

Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with.

"Our managing director has tied things up and flown home."

I made the introductions and suggested we might tie things up if he'd help out for a few minutes.

He just wanted to tie things up for a while.