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Idiom

clean as a hound's tooth

Meaning

Very clean.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“After the deep cleaning, the kitchen is clean as a hound's tooth.”

“She scrubbed the old apartment for hours until every corner was clean as a hound's tooth.”

“Despite the long years of neglect, the antique silver remained as clean as a hound's tooth, reflecting the sunlight that streamed through the dusty window.”

Examples

simple

“After the deep cleaning, the kitchen is clean as a hound's tooth.”

contextual

“She scrubbed the old apartment for hours until every corner was clean as a hound's tooth.”

complex

“Despite the long years of neglect, the antique silver remained as clean as a hound's tooth, reflecting the sunlight that streamed through the dusty window.”

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