clean sweep
一扫而光,一扫而空,大扫除,一扫而过
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- : an overwhelming or decisive victory, as by a political candidate who wins in all or almost all election districts.
- : the winning of all the prizes, rounds, contests, etc., in a competition or of all the games in a series.
- : a thorough or sweeping change, especially one effected by the large-scale removal or elimination of unwanted persons or things: The new president made a clean sweep when he joined the company, replacing all the department heads.
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Therefore, in order to make a clean sweep of the data that a company collected illicitly, it would also have to wipe out the algorithms that have ingested that data.
Just gather all the information, do a clean sweep on your website, and fix everything.
With Charlie Hebdo, “you really have a clean case here,” Shearer said.
This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
Millions of dollars in renovation later the building is gorgeous—Clean, well-kept, organized.
“Clean as a whistle,” says a senior investigator involved in the case.
Clean-shaven and balding, Saleem is in his forties and walks with a limp.
He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.
To talk German was beyond the sweep of my dizziest ambition, but an Italian runner or porter instantly presented himself.
He walked up the sweep of sandy drive to the hotel and went through the big glass doors.
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.
A groom is a chap, that a gentleman keeps to clean his 'osses, and be blown up, when things go wrong.