make+a+clean-up

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• make a clean breast of something — phrase to tell the truth about something wrong that you have done so that you can stop feeling guilty about it Thesaurus: to admit you are wrong or have done something wrongsynonym Main entry: clean * * * I see clean I …   Useful english dictionary

• make a clean breast — If someone makes a clean breast, they confess in full to something they have done …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• make a clean breast of it — ► make a clean breast of it fully confess something. Main Entry: ↑clean …   English terms dictionary

• make a clean sweep — ► make a clean sweep 1) remove all unwanted people or things ready to start afresh. 2) win all of a group of related sporting contests. Main Entry: ↑clean …   English terms dictionary

• make a clean break — To sever a relationship, etc completely • • • Main Entry: ↑clean * * * remove oneself completely and finally from a situation or relationship …   Useful english dictionary

• make a clean breast — index betray (disclose) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• make a clean sweep — ( ● sweep …   Useful english dictionary

• make a clean breast of — verb admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting • Syn: ↑own up, ↑fess up • Hypernyms: ↑concede, ↑profess, ↑confess …   Useful english dictionary

• make a clean breast — phrasal : to make a full disclosure or confession decided to make a clean breast of his part in the affair * * * make a clean breast To make a full confession • • • Main Entry: ↑breast …   Useful english dictionary

• make a clean sweep of — {v. phr.} 1. Achieve a complete victory. * /In 7980 the Reagan Republicans made a clean sweep of the western states./ 2. To eliminate thoroughly and completely. * /The new attorney general is expected to make a clean sweep of all the old… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• make a clean sweep of — {v. phr.} 1. Achieve a complete victory. * /In 7980 the Reagan Republicans made a clean sweep of the western states./ 2. To eliminate thoroughly and completely. * /The new attorney general is expected to make a clean sweep of all the old… …   Dictionary of American idioms