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clean sweep

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clean sweep
a broad movement clearing or affecting everything in its pathway. The manager and everybody in accounting got fired in a clean sweep of that department. Everybody got a pay rise. It was a clean sweep.
See also: clean, sweep


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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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