Idiom
bottom the house
Meaning
To clean a house from top to bottom; to clean a house extremely thoroughly.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I need to bottom the house this weekend.”
“Before the guests arrive for the holidays, we have to bottom the house from the attic to the basement.”
“She spent the entire week bottoming the house, ensuring that every hidden corner and dusty surface was scrubbed clean before the new tenants moved in.”
Examples
simple
“I need to bottom the house this weekend.”
contextual
“Before the guests arrive for the holidays, we have to bottom the house from the attic to the basement.”
complex
“She spent the entire week bottoming the house, ensuring that every hidden corner and dusty surface was scrubbed clean before the new tenants moved in.”
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