Clean as a whistle - If something is as clean as a whistle, it is extremely clean, spotless. It can also be used to mean 'completely', though this meaning is less common nowadays. If somebody is clean as a whistle, they are not involved in anything illegal.
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Clean bill of health - If something or someone has a clean bill of health, then there's nothing wrong; everything's fine.
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Clean break - If you make a clean break, you break away completely from something.
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Clean hands - Someone with clean hands, or who keeps their hands clean, is not involved in illegal or immoral activities.
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Clean sheet - When someone has a clean sheet, they have got no criminal record or problems affecting their reputation. In football and other sports, a goalkeeper has a clean sheet when let no goals in.
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Clean slate - If you start something with a clean slate, then nothing bad from your past is taken into account.
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Clean sweep - If someone makes a clean sweep, they win absolutely everything in a competition or contest.
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Clean your clock - If you clean your clock, you beat someone decisively in a contest or fight.
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Come clean - If someone comes clean about something, they admit to deceit or wrongdoing.
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Keep your nose clean - If someone is trying to keep their Nose Clean, they are trying to stay out of trouble by not getting involved in any sort of wrong-doing.
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Make a clean breast - If someone makes a clean breast, they confess in full to something they have done.
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New brush sweeps clean - 'A new brush sweeps clean' means that someone with a new perspective can make great changes. However, the full version is 'a new brush sweeps clean, but an old brush knows the corners', which warns that experience is also a valuable thing. Sometimes 'broom' is used instead of 'brush'.
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Show someone a clean pair of heels - If you show someone a clean pair of heels, you run faster than them when they are chasing you.
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Squeaky clean - If something is squeaky clean, it is very clean indeed- spotless. If a person is squeaky clean, they have no criminal record and are not suspected of illegal or immoral activities.
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In literature:
Free from danger, as clean coast, clean harbour; in general parlance means quite, entirely.
"The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth
The vessel must be afterwards well rinsed out in clean water, as 'the potassa temporarily stains everything in contact a rich purplish red.
"Practical Taxidermy" by Montagu Browne
The chief part of his work, when he was not cleaning up or running errands, was the sorting of fruit and the cracking of sugar.
"A Poor Man's House" by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
Hoes, rakes, and claw-hand weeders should be used in cleaning up and cultivating the plots.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study" by Ontario Ministry of Education
Clean pith and fair play.
"The Proverbs of Scotland" by Alexander Hislop
After you made de las' pass wid de gallopin' ivory you sho' lef me clean.
"Lady Luck" by Hugh Wiley
I look, I see the sky is clean as a scraped skin.
"The Huntress" by Hulbert Footner
I believe he's a clean, straight little fellow, and he can more than make up for his board by cooking and doing odd jobs.
"Jim Spurling, Fisherman" by Albert Walter Tolman
The cartridges are then picked up, cleaned, and returned to the belt and the piece is brought to the order.
"Manual of Military Training" by James A. Moss
The hen house should be cleaned as often as the barn.
"One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed" by C. A. Bogardus
One of them was cleaning silver, the other was still lingering over tea.
"If Winter Don't" by Barry Pain
The Injuns have got this section combed out clean.
"The Boy Chums in the Forest" by Wilmer M. Ely
I knew now what Lawyer Trefry meant when he said that Lawyer Tresidder would pick the bone clean.
"The Birthright" by Joseph Hocking
She's drove my teeth clean down my throat!
"Reels and Spindles" by Evelyn Raymond
I have sent out orders that all men that can must report at the mill to-morrow to commence cleaning up.
"The Johnstown Horror" by James Herbert Walker
CLEANING OF GLASS APPARATUS.
"The Elements of Bacteriological Technique" by John William Henry Eyre
A dirty whey tank is not an especially good object lesson to the patron to keep his cans clean.
"Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition" by H. L. Russell
Electric motors are easy and convenient to run, very clean, but so far not very economical.
"The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)" by Various
Methods of obtaining clean milk.
"Rural Hygiene" by Henry N. Ogden
He keeps clean in body and thought, stands for clean speech, clean sport, clean habits, and travels with a clean crowd.
"Boy Scouts Handbook" by Boy Scouts of America
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In poetry:
I worked for a woman,
She wasn't mean—
But she had a twelve-room
House to clean.
"Madam And Her Madam" by Langston Hughes
Crutch awa he flang it,
Clean forgot his hairms,
Cudna stan' withoot it,
Fell in Mally's airms.
"Ower The Hedge" by George MacDonald
"From vile idolatry
Preserve my worship clean;
I am the Lord, who set thee free
From slavery and sin.
"Psalm 81" by Isaac Watts
How gladly do I think and say,
When thus it is with me,
Sin to my sense is clean away,
And so shall ever be?
"The Believer's Principles : Chap. IV." by Ralph Erskine
Thy word I've hid within my heart
To keep my conscience clean,
And be an everlasting guard
From every rising sin.
"Psalm 119 part 13" by Isaac Watts
It is his blood that makes the house
Still warm, safe, bright,
Honest as aim and eye and hand,
As clean, as light.
"Home For Love" by John Freeman
In news:
Warren said that she owns a cleaning business and sometimes enters homes, cleans them and leaves a bill.
A US woman dubbed the " cleaning fairy" after she broke into a home, cleaned it and left a 75 dollar (£47) bill has been put on probation for one year.
US robotics company iRobot Corp. Has added a new vacuum cleaning robot to its stable of cleaning devices: the Roomba 600 Series.
Cintas Corporation recently introduced ChemTron Coil Cleaning, its first air conditioning coil cleaning service for the hospitality industry.
But being able to clean these items well is a big incentive for customers to bring in everything they need cleaned.
According to the 2010 Procter & Gamble (P&G) Professional "Cleaning in a Down Economy" survey, 65 percent of respondents said the restroom is the most important room to clean and 39 percent said it is the most difficult room to clean.
If your automatic dishwasher isn't getting your plates, pots and pans sparkling clean anymore, try this trick before replacing it: Clean the filter inside the machine.
Jobs in the tourism, fishing and marine sectors would be jeopardized if clean water and clean air are not maintained.
Chris Mentzel, CEO of Clean Energy Maui LLC, consults with county and state governments in Hawai'i to secure a quick transition to a clean energy future.
As a result, the Environmental Protection Agency was created, the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts were passed, and the modern environmental movement was born.
There are wands for carpet cleaning and hard surface cleaning already offered by Esteam.
CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio woman dubbed the "cleaning fairy " after she broke into a home, cleaned it and left a $75 bill has been put on probation for one year.
CLEVELAND—An Ohio woman dubbed the "cleaning fairy " after she broke into a home, cleaned it and left a $75 bill has been put on probation for one year.
CLEVELAND — An Ohio woman dubbed the "cleaning fairy " after she broke into a home, cleaned it and left a $75 bill has been put on probation for one year.
GE, Clean Energy Fuels Partner to Expand 'Natural Gas Highway' GE and Clean Energy Fuels announced a collaboration to expand the infrastructure for natural gas transportation in the United States.
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In science:
In disordered system and at T = 0 K, the mean field approach to slave bosons can be formulated by suitably generalizing the clean limit.
Interplay of Disorder and Correlations
The spectrum ε~k of a clean but interacting system in the U = ∞ limit is replaced by ξ 2 ε~k − λ(2) .
Interplay of Disorder and Correlations
The dirty maps were cleaned down to half the rms noise level with channel dependent search areas using the standard H ögbom algorithm.
Star Formation and Tidal Encounters with the Low Surface Brightness Galaxy UGC 12695 and Companions
We can see how clr leaves the spectrum clean of the interference and keeps the intrinsic detector noise.
Removing Line Interference from Gravitational Wave Interferometer Data
If the support of fp,p is a connected set, then we say that p is a clean sextactic point.
Sextactic points on a simple closed curve
Lemmas 3.3 and 3.6 imply that a clean sextactic point in I is sextactic and that moreover every point in the intersection of the support of fp,p with I is a clean sextactic point if p is.
Sextactic points on a simple closed curve
Hence the origin lies in an osculating plane Pj at one of the clean vertices tj .
Sextactic points on a simple closed curve
Since tj is a clean vertex we have that Cj ∩ ˆγ is connected.
Sextactic points on a simple closed curve
Olympic-sized swimming pool of cleaning fluid.
How the sun shines
That said, it should be emphasized that universality is much better justified for clean systems than for the systems with disorder which we shall be considering in this talk.
Computer Science in Physics
The delay, fringe rate and phase solutions derived from this initial fringefitting and self-calibration procedure were then applied to the other two pointings which were then Fourier transformed and CLEANed.
Global VLBI Observations of Compact Radio Sources in M82
It is worth noting the clean disappearance of the Laplace transform variable s from inside the q -integral, which allows us to complete the calculation easily from this point.
Sign-time distribution for a random walker with a drifting boundary
As seen, by requiring threshold energy deposits in both detectors (the lines in Fig. 3) one can isolate clean samples of pions and electrons.
Prototype tests for the ALICE TRD
The data did not determine all the parameters cleanly, and the fit program , which works iteratively, converged to different results depending on the starting values, and whether any of the parameters were held fixed.
Specific-Heat Exponent of Random-Field Systems via Ground-State Calculations
I could not find a clean proof of this relatively well-known fact in print.
Duality Chipped
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