a clean sweep
a clean sweep
a broad movement clearing or affecting everything in its pathway. (See also make a clean sweep. Usually figurative.)
The manager and everybody in accounting got fired in a clean sweep of that department.
Everybody got a pay rise. It was a clean sweep.
热门单词
- accompany so on a musical instrument
- act like oneself again
- add sth up
- a double-edged sword
- advertise sth for sth
- advise so about so or sth
- a fleeting glance
- a frog in one's throat
- a furtive glance
- after the style of so or sth
- all thumbs
- all walks of life
- all wool and no shoddy
- ally
- alpha
- alternate
- amuse
- amuse so with sth
- a nature stop
- and the like
- an important milestone in so's life
