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clean sweep
noun
- 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.
Idioms and Phrases
see make a clean sweep .Example Sentences
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.
In the 70s it went through a brief stint as an X-rated adult cinema before an upgrade and clean sweep in the early 80s.
Barring such a radical exorcism, a clean sweep is in order.
The result will force Romney to settle for a crushing win on his native turf, rather than a clean sweep.
"No—they'll try the other side now to get a clean sweep at me," said Stover.
General Thomas made a clean sweep of the artillery, capturing every piece, and taking forty-five hundred prisoners.
The woods that interfered with his cannon ranges had all been cut away, and his guns had a clean sweep of every approach.
All at once it struck me that if I really frightened him too much they might decamp without making a clean sweep.
Not that it wouldn't seem as usual, even if the gang had paid us a visit and made a clean sweep of our poor possessions.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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