spring-cleaning
a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
the activity of giving a place a complete cleaning: We've been involved in spring-cleaning and are exhausted.
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How to use spring-cleaning in a sentence
In the first week of April, the badger's spring-cleaning began in downright earnest.
Creatures of the Night | Alfred W. ReesThe Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth GrahameThe vanity of some women is such that some expect a pedestal—nay, an altar—when the spring-cleaning of their house is over.
Rambles in Womanland | Max O'RellDid Scarlett tell her himself in an access of moral spring-cleaning preparatory to matrimony?
Red Pottage | Mary CholmondeleyHe would bring back the spring-cleaning requisites on his bicycle that evening.
If Winter Don't | Barry Pain
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