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Definition of "clean house" [clean house]

  • To clean the interior of a house. (verb)
  • To reform by removing undesirable personnel and procedures. (verb)

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Use "clean house" in a sentence
  • "She took a deep breath, drawing in the familiar smells of a clean house — fabric softener, computer fans going full-blast, Cath's strawberry incense, the smell of gun oil and healthy human animals."
  • "But no kid is sleepin in my clean house without a bath, without a shampoo, without a delousin, an, most specially, without new clothes—ya hear!"