bottom the house
antiquated To thoroughly clean every part of a house, i.e., from "top to bottom." Every time we visited my elderly aunt, she told us to help her "bottom the house," as if we were her maids. They set about bottoming the house before their guests arrived. Look at all this dust! We need to bottom the house before Grandmother gets here.
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