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clean sweep

一扫而光,一扫而空,大扫除,一扫而过

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intriumph

Examples

  • 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.