clear the decks
informalto remove unnecessary things so that you are ready for action:
Let's clear the decks and then we can start cooking dinner.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and extracting
- ablate
- cream sth/sb off
- descale
- dislodge
- drainage
- extract
- gouge
- milk
- pull (sb/sth) out
- pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
- pump
- removable
- remove
- remover
- root
- rout
- scratch
- siphon
- syphon
- take sth away
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