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Idiom

clean as a whistle

Meaning

Very clean.

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

Examples

“After I finished cleaning, the kitchen was clean as a whistle.”

“You should see the apartment now that the cleaners have finished; it is clean as a whistle.”

“Despite the years of neglect, the old cottage was restored until every corner was as clean as a whistle.”

Examples

simple

“After I finished cleaning, the kitchen was clean as a whistle.”

contextual

“You should see the apartment now that the cleaners have finished; it is clean as a whistle.”

complex

“Despite the years of neglect, the old cottage was restored until every corner was as clean as a whistle.”

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