All were bare and disorderly, because, as the woman explained, house-cleaning was in progress.
Preserving-time was a prolonged festival, and house-cleaning was like a revolution.
Retty was full of work and house-cleaning, and her lover had come on.
It is only the excess of this form of nature's house-cleaning which needs to be checked.
house-cleaning is one thing that I never saw in practice or evidence.
Today she had been house-cleaning, and had brought some treasures downstairs.
A pleasant way of doing this is to give a house-cleaning party.
From the 1st to the 10th spring house-cleaning will take place.
I'm afraid of what may be uncovered there when the house-cleaning begins.
The same is true of the equipments for house-cleaning and for washing the dishes.
noun
A reorganization of a business or government department, esp with dismissal of incompetent or dishonest employees; shake-up: Honest cops, instead of welcoming a house-cleaning, resent it (1928+)