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]
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How to use clean house in a sentence
And Mitt Romney is vowing to “clean house” at the agency as the political headaches mount for the Obama administration.
Secret Service Colombia Sex Scandal Deepens as Political Drama Rises | Tara McKelvey | April 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBartz joined Yahoo in January 2009 and was supposed to clean house and engineer a turnaround for the ailing Internet giant.
History shows that voter anger about corruption leads us to clean house.
Asked how she finds the time to be both homemaker and gangster, she replied, "A clean house is a sign of a broken computer!"
Robert Pozen on how the banks can clean house—and get the feds off their backs.
The clean house in the midst of a dirty city may be the match to start a fire of cleansing.
Euthenics, the science of controllable environment | Ellen H. RichardsDo you believe that girls should like to work at home, to cook and clean house and mind the baby?
Educational Work of the Girl Scouts | Louise Stevens BryantIn March Mrs. Northrup began to clean house and took a bad cold, and a month later was buried.
Helen Grant's Schooldays | Amanda M. DouglasColour is not Rembrandtesque, usually, in a clean house; but is presently obtainable of that quality in a dirty one.
The next place was a nice clean house, where we restored ourselves again.
Bowdoin Boys in Labrador | Jonathan Prince Cilley, Jr.
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