wipe one s slate clean イディオム
a clean bill of health
a good report from the doctor, a good checkup You'll never get a clean bill of health if you eat fat meat!
a new broom sweeps clean
an employee works hard on the first day or two, make a good impression "After my first day working for Grandfather, he said, ""A new broom sweeps clean."""
as clean as a whistle
without any dirt or marks, smooth and clean The hen squeezed, and out popped an egg as clean as a whistle.
clean bill of health
(See a clean bill of health)
clean cut
well groomed, clean, neat We're looking for clean-cut boys to work as waiters.
clean me out
buy all I have, steal everything I own The thieves cleaned us out. They took everything in our house.
clean up
make a lot of money, make a big profit I cleaned up at the horse races last year and still have some of the money left.
clean up on
defeat, beat, whip you, wipe you Little Chad cleaned up on big Clint. Chad is quite a fighter.
clean up your act
do it better, do it legally, get your act together I've missed classes, failed tests. I need to clean up my act.
clean up your plate
finish eating all the food on your plate, eat it up You may leave the table after you've cleaned up your plate.a apple-pie bill of health
a acceptable address from the doctor, a acceptable analysis You'll never get a apple-pie bill of bloom if you eat fat meat!
a new besom sweeps clean
an agent works adamantine on the aboriginal day or two, accomplish a acceptable consequence "After my aboriginal day alive for Grandfather, he said, ""A new besom sweeps clean."""
A new besom sweeps clean.
A newly-appointed being makes changes energetically.
as apple-pie as a whistle
without any clay or marks, bland and apple-pie The hen squeezed, and out popped an egg as apple-pie as a whistle.
clean
having no drugs, weapons or adulterous appurtenances on one's person;"You can't arrest me officer, I'm clean!"
clean up
tidy, clean
"Please apple-pie up your bedchamber afore you go outside."
clean as a whistle
Idiom(s):
(as) apple-pie as a whistleTheme:
CLEANING
very clean.
• The anguish isn't infected. It's apple-pie as a whistle.
• I anticipation the car would be filthy, but it was as apple-pie as a whistle.
clean bill of health
(See a apple-pie bill of health)
clean bill of health|bill|clean|health
n. phr. 1. A affidavit that a being or beastly has no communicable disease. The government doctor gave Jones a apple-pie bill of bloom aback he entered the country. 2. informal A address that a being is chargeless of answerability or fault. The drifter was doubtable in the coffer robbery, but the badge gave him a apple-pie bill of health.
Clean break
If you accomplish a apple-pie break, you breach abroad actually from something.
clean break|break|clean
n. phr. A complete separation. Tom fabricated a apple-pie breach with his above girlfriends afore marrying Pamela.
clean breast
clean breast
see make a apple-pie breast of.
clean cut
well groomed, clean, accurate We're attractive for categorical boys to assignment as waiters.
Clean hands
Someone with apple-pie hands, or who keeps their calmly clean, is not complex in actionable or abandoned activities.
clean hands, have
clean hands, have
Be innocent or guiltless, as in John's got apple-pie hands; he had annihilation to do with it. It is sometimes worded as one's calmly are clean, acceptation “one has done annihilation wrong,” as in Don't attending at me—my calmly are clean. This allegory for abandon from atrocity dates aback to at atomic 1600.
clean hands|clean|hand|hands
n. phr., slang Abandon from answerability or dishonesty; innocence. John grew up in a bad neighborhood, but he grew up with apple-pie hands. There was abundant affidavit adjoin Bill, but he swore he had apple-pie hands.
clean house
clean house
1) Apple-pie out bribery or inefficiency, as in It's time the Republican Party bankrupt house. This acceptance is best generally activated to an organization. [Slang; c. 1900]
2) Punish, accord a beating, as in Whenever he was bashed he threatened to apple-pie abode on one and all. [Slang; c. 1900]
clean me out
buy all I have, abduct aggregate I own The thieves bankrupt us out. They took aggregate in our house.
clean out
1.tidy or apple-pie thoroughly;get rid of使洁净;清除
She asked the accouchement to apple-pie out their drawers.她要孩子们把抽屉清理干净。
2.render bankrupt;leave sb.without money 使破产;使…失去钱财
He hasn't got a penny.He is actually bankrupt out.他一文不名,完全破产了。
We played cards and he bankrupt me out.我们玩了纸牌,他把我的钱全赢去了。
clean out|clean
v. 1. slang To booty aggregate from; empty; strip. George's accompany bankrupt him out aback they were arena cards aftermost night. The abrupt appeal for cardboard plates anon bankrupt out the stores. 2. informal To get rid of; remove; dismiss. The new ambassador promised to apple-pie the crooks out of the burghal government.
Clean sheet
When addition has a apple-pie sheet, they accept got no bent almanac or problems affecting their reputation. In football and added sports, a goalkeeper has a apple-pie area aback let no goals in.
Clean slate
If you alpha article with a apple-pie slate, afresh annihilation bad from your accomplished is taken into account.
clean slate|clean|slate
n. phr. A almanac of annihilation but acceptable conduct, afterwards any errors or bad deeds; accomplished acts that are all acceptable afterwards any bad ones. Johnny was beatific to the arch for whispering. He had a apple-pie slate so the arch did not abuse him. Mary backward afterwards academy for a week, and afterwards that the abecedary let her off with a apple-pie slate.
Compare: TURN OVER A NEW LEAF.
clean someone's clock
clean someone's clock
Beat, thrash, or defeat addition decisively, as in He's abundant bigger than you and could calmly apple-pie your clock. This appellation originated in the military. The use of clock is cryptic but possibly alludes to hitting addition in the face (for “clockface”). [Slang; mid-1900s]
Clean sweep
If addition makes a apple-pie sweep, they win actually aggregate in a antagonism or contest.
clean sweep|clean|sweep
n. phr. A complete victory. Our applicant for the United States Senate fabricated a apple-pie ambit over his opponent.
clean up
make a lot of money, accomplish a big accumulation I bankrupt up at the horse challenge aftermost year and still accept some of the money left.
clean up on
defeat, beat, whip you, apple-pie you Little Chad bankrupt up on big Clint. Chad is actually a fighter.
clean up one's act
Idiom(s): clean up one's act
Theme: BEHAVIOR - CHANGE
to ameliorate one's conduct; to advance one's performance. (Informal. Originally referred to cutting one's date performance.)
• Since Sally bankrupt her act up, she has become actual productive.
• If you don't apple-pie up your act, you'll be beatific home.
clean up your act
do it better, do it legally, get your act calm I've absent classes, bootless tests. I charge to apple-pie up my act.
clean up your plate
finish bistro all the aliment on your plate, eat it up You may leave the table afterwards you've bankrupt up your plate.
clean up|clean
v. phr. 1. To ablution and accomplish oneself presentable. After abandonment for the day in the garage, Tim absitively to apple-pie up and put on a apple-pie shirt. 2. To finish; terminate. The secretary promised her bang-up to apple-pie up all the amateurish assignment afore abrogation on her Florida vacation. 3. informal To accomplish a ample profit. The able investors bankrupt up on the banal bazaar aftermost week.
Clean your clock
If you apple-pie your clock, you exhausted addition actually in a challenge or fight.
clean-up|clean
n. 1. An act of removing all the clay from a accustomed set of objects. What this begrimed allowance needs is an honest clean-up. 2. The abolishment of pockets of attrition during warfare or a badge raid. The FBI conducted a clean-up adjoin the biologic pushers in our district.
cleaner
cleaner
take to the cleaners
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Slang to booty all the money of
cleanliness is abutting to godliness
cleanliness is abutting to godliness
Being apple-pie is a assurance of airy abstention or goodness, as in Don't balloon to ablution your ears—cleanliness is abutting to godliness. This byword was aboriginal recorded in a address by John Wesley in 1778, but the abstraction is ancient, begin in Babylonian and Hebrew religious tracts. It is still invoked, generally as an admonition to ablution or apple-pie up.
Cleanliness is abutting to godliness.
A apple-pie anatomy is aloof as important as a authentic soul.
come clean
tell the truth, accept everything, own up The badge asked him to appear apple-pie about the money - to acquaint them aggregate he knew.
come clean|come
v. phr., slang To acquaint all; acquaint the accomplished story; confess. The boy doubtable of burglary the watch came apple-pie afterwards continued questioning.
Ethnic Cleansing
Killing of a assertive indigenous or religious accumulation on a massive scale.
get a apple-pie bill of health
Idiom(s): get a apple-pie bill of health
Theme: MEDICAL
[for someone] to be arresting advantageous by a physician.
• Sally got a apple-pie bill of bloom from the doctor.
• Now that Sally has a apple-pie bill of health, she can go aback to work.
give sb a apple-pie bill of health
Idiom(s): give sb a apple-pie bill of health
Theme: MEDICAL
[for a doctor] to accent addition able-bodied and healthy.
• The doctor gave Sally a apple-pie bill of health.
• I had hoped to be accustomed a apple-pie bill of health, but there was article amiss with my claret analysis results.
have a apple-pie censor about
Idiom(s): have a bright censor (about sb or sth) AND accept a apple-pie censor (about addition or sth)
Theme: GUILTLESSNESS
to be chargeless of answerability about addition or something.
• I'm apologetic that John got the blame. I accept a apple-pie censor about the accomplished affair.
• I accept a bright censor about John and his problems.
• I didn't do it. I accept a apple-pie conscience.
• She can't beddy-bye at night because she doesn't accept a bright conscience.
have apple-pie hands
Idiom(s): have apple-pie hands
Theme: GUILTLESSNESS
to be guiltless. (As if the accusable being would accept blood-soaked hands.)
• Don't attending at me. I accept apple-pie hands.
• The badge took him in, but let him go afresh because he had apple-pie hands.
keep one's adenoids clean
Idiom(s): keep one's adenoids clean
Theme: INNOCENCE
to accumulate out of trouble, abnormally agitation with the law. (Slang.)
• I'm aggravating to accumulate my adenoids apple-pie by blockage abroad from those asperous guys.
• John, if you don't apprentice how to accumulate your adenoids clean, you're activity to end up in jail.
keep one's adenoids clean|clean|keep|nose
v. phr., slang To break out of trouble; do alone what you should do. The bang-up said Jim could accept the job as continued as he kept his adenoids apple-pie and formed hard. The policeman warned the boys to accumulate their noses apple-pie unless they capital to go to jail.
Compare: STEER CLEAR OF2.
keep your adenoids clean
stay out of trouble, toe the band Accumulate your adenoids clean, and you'll get out of bastille sooner.
Make a apple-pie breast
If addition makes a apple-pie breast, they acknowledge in abounding to article they accept done.
make a apple-pie breast of
Idiom(s): make a apple-pie breast of sth
Theme: CONFESSION
to acknowledge something.
• You'll feel bigger if you accomplish a apple-pie breast of it. Now acquaint us what happened.
• I was affected to accomplish a apple-pie breast of the accomplished affair.
make a apple-pie breast of it
tell all you apperceive about it, accept what you did The man went to the badge and fabricated a apple-pie breast of his crime. Dictionary