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Clean up

verb

Put (things or places) in order. Synonyms: neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up.

Make a big profit; often in a short period of time.

Dispose of.

Make oneself clean, presentable or neat.

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"Clean up" Quotes from Famous Books

... bill-hook," she would say, "and clean up that snake-fence path of yours a little, may be folks would climb up here to see us once in a blue moon. It's all well enough for you with your breeches, but how are women folks to trail their ...

— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner

... and even broken bottles. Dirt and Desolation! I remember that it was then when I looked at that floor that the first little suspicion stole into my heart—not a suspicion so much as an uneasiness. I wanted at once myself to set to work to clean up all the mess ...

— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole

... of heavy fatigues, pointed out that if Jerry came over he would find them too utterly washed out to jab a bayonet into an ounce of butter, much less a man, and finally demanded in disgust "if they were the only available Battalion in the Army and whether they had to clean up the whole ...

— Norman Ten Hundred - A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry • A. Stanley Blicq

... best streets. His house and yard were an eyesore to his neighbours who liked him personally. He knew this and would stand on his front porch laughing and roaring about it. "Good morning, Mary," he would shout at the neat German woman across the street. "Wait and you'll see me clean up about here. I'm going at it right now. I'm going to brush the flies off ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

... shouted the cattleman. "Look at them old newspapers and them gun rags! The place is like a cow-yard. Why in the name of heaven don't you clean up here!" ...

— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White

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