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clean house
Wipe out corruption or inefficiency, as in It's time the Republican Party cleaned house . This usage is most often applied to an organization. [ Slang ; c. 1900]
Punish, give a beating, as in Whenever he was drunk he threatened to clean house on one and all . [ Slang ; c. 1900]
Example Sentences
He coached briefly on his father’s staff in Minnesota, only for the Timberwolves to clean house soon after.
Rhodes, fresh out of prison, told reporters he hoped that Patel “cleans house” at the FBI.
Patel has advocated for closing the bureau's Washington, D.C. headquarters and cleaning house with widespread layoffs of the agency's leadership.
He claims he will clean house and that's what Trump has hired him for.
But there’s reason to wonder if it is effectively cleaning house.
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