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clean out

Verb

Meaning

empty completely

deprive completely of money or goods

force out

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I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds. Thomas Merton

Roll, roll me away, Won't you roll me away tonight? I too am lost, I feel double-crossed. And I'm sick of what's wrong and what's right. We never even said a word, We just walked out and got on that bike. And we rolled. And we rolled clean out of sight. Bob Seger

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. Theodore Roosevelt

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games. Duke Snider

First clean out your own backyard. American Proverb

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