spring-clean

Definitions

Examples

• She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

• With Charlie Hebdo, “you really have a clean case here,” Shearer said.

• This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.

• It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.

• This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

• It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.

• He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.

• I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.

• In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.

• The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.