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clean sweep

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a clean sweep
if you make a clean sweep, you win a competition or an election very easily or you win all the prizes in a competition. China's women divers achieved a clean sweep in yesterday's competitions. Analysts are predicting a clean sweep for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections.
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I was a man now, and I made a clean sweep of everything that bound me to my boyhood.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
You anarchists should make it clear that you are perfectly determined to make a clean sweep of the whole social creation.
The Secret Agent by Conrad, Joseph View in context
It might be the making of our fortune to make a clean sweep of them both.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
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