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• clean something out — strip a place of and steal all its contents. → clean …   English new terms dictionary

• clean someone out — clean (someone) out to take everything from someone. Thieves took my bank card and absolutely cleaned me out. I d offer you something to eat, but Sean was here last night and he cleaned us out …   New idioms dictionary

• clean sb out — Ⅰ. UK US clean sb/sth out Phrasal Verb with clean({{}}/kliːn/ verb ► INFORMAL to take or spend all of someone s or something s money: »When dotcom companies collapsed, many investors were cleaned out. »Identity thieves cleaned out customer… …   Financial and business terms

• clean sth out — Ⅰ. UK US clean sb/sth out Phrasal Verb with clean({{}}/kliːn/ verb ► INFORMAL to take or spend all of someone s or something s money: »When dotcom companies collapsed, many investors were cleaned out. »Identity thieves cleaned out customer… …   Financial and business terms

• clear something out — 1 we cleared out the junk room: EMPTY (OUT); tidy (up), clear up. 2 clear out the rubbish: GET RID OF, throw out/away, discard, dispose of, dump, bin, scrap, jettison; informal chuck …   Useful english dictionary

• turn something out — 1 turn out the light.: See turn something off. 2 they turn out a million engines a year: PRODUCE, make, manufacture, fabricate, put out, churn out. 3 she turned out the cupb …   Useful english dictionary

• wash something out — 1) clean the inside of something with water 2) wash something, esp. a garment, quickly or briefly I don t have time to wash a blouse out every night 3) usu. be washed out cause an event to be postponed or canceled because of rain the game was… …   Useful english dictionary

• muck something out — ˌmuck ˈout | ˌmuck sthˈout derived to clean out the place where an animal lives • Part of her job was to muck out the stables. Main entry: ↑muckderived …   Useful english dictionary

• rinse something out — ˌrinse sthˈout derived to make sth clean, especially a container, by washing it with water • Rinse the cup out before use. Main entry: ↑rinsederived …   Useful english dictionary

• scrub something out — ˌscrub sthˈout derived to clean the inside of sth by rubbing it hard with a brush and usually with soap and water • He scrubbed out the pans and left them to drain. Main entry: ↑scrubderived …   Useful english dictionary