make a clean sweep 的定义
- Remove or eliminate unwanted persons or things, as in The new owners made a clean sweep of the place, intending to replace all the equipment. This phrase replaced the much older general sweep. [Mid-1800s]
make a clean sweep 近义词
等同于 shake up
等同于 clear the decks
make a clean sweep 的近义词 5 个
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- Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
- With Charlie Hebdo, “you really have a clean case here,” Shearer said.
- And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
- The court ruled she lacked the maturity to make her own medical decisions.
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
- She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
- Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.