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单词 to clean house
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to clean house
f. to clean house. Cf. houseclean vb. at Compounds 10 in regular and extended use.
(a) North American. To clean and tidy the interior of a house, flat, etc.
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1825 B. Hibbard Mem. Life & Trav. 218 Some young women came to clean house, and I hired a woman to wash.
1885 Firemen's Mag. July 419/2 I like to clean house, and the children delight in the curiosities which emerge from the closets and rag bags.
1912 Christian Advocate 17 Oct. 27/1 Yes, she's started to clean house. She must have new draperies.
1986 D. Koontz Strangers i. i. 12 She cleaned house..with a thoroughness that defied her Aunt Francine's sub rosa inspections for dirt and grime.
2014 A. Goffman On Run (2015) vii. 176 Mr George's mother cooked and cleaned house for two white families in downtown Philadelphia.
(b) figurative (originally U.S.). To eliminate corruption or inefficiency in an organization; to remove unwanted or inessential personnel.
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1885 N.-Y. Times 17 Oct. 1/5 (headline) Why they cleaned house. An outspoken Ohio Democrat gives an interesting explanation.
1915 Rotarian July 51/1 In common with other organizations public utilities have cleaned house... Today there are no better managed, no more fairly conducted organizations than these.
1993 D. Coyle Hardball iv. iv. 178 There was an increasing possibility that the management would be ousted. ‘It's tough to tell what all that could mean’, Bill said. ‘But if they clean house, I could be on the street’.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Feb. (Business section) 5 Less than a year after Craig was ousted, Stanford was also pushed out... The private equity boss was cleaning house.
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