| 单词 | to clean out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto clean out 4. to clean out: extracted from cleanv. a. To clean by emptying; hence transferred to empty, exhaust, leave bare. Also figurative. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)] > by emptying to clean out1844 to muck out1851 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > empty or exhaust draw1483 rinse1575 sponge1610 clear1699 bottom1808 to clean out1844 deplete1850 deplenish1859 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. ix. 177 The larder was utterly cleaned out. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iii. 67 There is a great danger that a man's first life-story shall clean him out, so to speak, of his best thoughts. 1866 T. Carlyle Inaug. Addr. Edinb. 180 You will see how we may clean-out the foul things in that Chancery Court. 1887 Scotsman 19 Mar. The obligation to clean out the canal. b. slang. To deprive of cash, to ‘rook’. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle defraud1362 deceivec1380 plucka1500 lurch1530 defeata1538 souse1545 lick1548 wipe1549 fraud1563 use1564 cozen1573 nick1576 verse1591 rooka1595 trim1600 skelder1602 firk1604 dry-shave1620 fiddle1630 nose1637 foista1640 doa1642 sharka1650 chouse1654 burn1655 bilk1672 under-enter1692 sharp1699 stick1699 finger1709 roguea1714 fling1749 swindle1773 jink1777 queer1778 to do over1781 jump1789 mace1790 chisel1808 slang1812 bucket1819 to clean out1819 give it1819 to put in the hole1819 ramp1819 sting1819 victimize1839 financier1840 gum1840 snakea1861 to take down1865 verneuk1871 bunco1875 rush1875 gyp1879 salt1882 daddle1883 work1884 to have (one) on toast1886 slip1890 to do (a person) in the eye1891 sugar1892 flay1893 to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895 con1896 pad1897 screw1900 short-change1903 to do in1906 window dress1913 ream1914 twist1914 clean1915 rim1918 tweedle1925 hype1926 clip1927 take1927 gazump1928 yentz1930 promote1931 to take (someone) to the cleaners1932 to carve up1933 chizz1948 stiff1950 scam1963 to rip off1969 to stitch up1970 skunk1971 to steal (someone) blind1974 diddle- 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 163 Cleaned out, said of a gambler who has lost his last stake at play; also, of a flat who has been stript of all his money. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxviii. 38 He has cleaned me out; but I can go and earn some more. a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent i. 7 They had been burnt out, they had been cleaned out, they had been drowned out. 1901 S. E. White Westerners xiii. 94 Bunco men can clean him out in a gambling joint. c. To defeat or deal effectively with (a person); to eject from a place. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat shendc893 overwinOE overheaveOE mate?c1225 to say checkmatea1346 vanquishc1366 stightlea1375 outrayc1390 to put undera1393 forbeat1393 to shave (a person's) beardc1412 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 adawc1440 supprisec1440 to knock downc1450 to put to the worsta1475 waurc1475 convanquish1483 to put out1485 trima1529 convince1548 foil1548 whip1571 evict1596 superate1598 reduce1605 convict1607 defail1608 cast1610 banga1616 evince1620 worst1646 conquer1655 cuffa1657 trounce1657 to ride down1670 outdo1677 routa1704 lurcha1716 fling1790 bowl1793 lick1800 beat1801 mill1810 to row (someone) up Salt River1828 defeat1830 sack1830 skunk1832 whop1836 pip1838 throw1850 to clean out1858 take1864 wallop1865 to sock it to1877 whack1877 to clean up1888 to beat out1893 to see off1919 to lower the boom on1920 tonk1926 clobber1944 ace1950 to run into the ground1955 1858 in Kansas Hist. Coll. XIV. 99 I could clean you out quicker than greased lightning would pass a funeral. 1863 Harper's Mag. Sept. 569/2 ‘All right,’ says Rhind; ‘fire, boys!’ and in a very short time that ambush was ‘cleaned out’. 1871 Congress. Globe 5 Jan. 316/1 The enemy did take possession of the house one day. They were ‘cleaned out’ as we say; they were compelled to leave the house. 1892 J. L. Ford Dr. Dodd's School i. 10 He could lick the whole crowd of them with one hand tied behind his back. Do you remember how he cleaned out the townies that Saturday afternoon? 1908 S. E. White Riverman xxii. 197 I don't bet those Saginaw river-pigs are any more two-fisted than the boys on this river. I'd go up and clean 'em out. d. To clear (a place) of the persons occupying it. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > make unoccupied wanec1200 evacuate1607 untenant1640 vacant1649 unstock1655 disnesta1700 to clean out1858 distenant1876 1858 in Kansas Hist. Coll. (1896) V. 567 These same men attacked Barnesville..and literally cleaned it out, both of inhabitants and property. 1870–9 B. Harte Society Stanislaus 20 On several occasions he had cleaned out the town. 1883 G. W. Peck Peck's Bad Boy No. 2. 29 Pa got mad and said he could clean out the whole shebang. 1901 M. E. Ryan That Girl Montana vii. 97 They..would proceed to ‘clean out’ any establishment where their own peculiar set was ignored. 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail vi. 48 Nothing pleases him better than..to embark on an earnest effort to ‘clean out’ a rival town. < as lemmas |
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