make a clean sweep of

[make a clean sweep of] {v. phr.}

1. Achieve a complete victory.

* /In 7980 the Reagan Republicans made a clean sweep of the western states./

2. To eliminate thoroughly and completely.

* /The new attorney general is expected to make a clean sweep of all the old administrative personnel./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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