make+clean
111make a killing — (informal) MAKE A LARGE PROFIT, make a/one s fortune, make money; informal clean up, make a packet, make a pretty penny; Brit. informal make a bomb; N. Amer. informal make big bucks. → killing * * * …
112clean up — verb a) To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. Clean up your room. b) To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special …
113Clean enterprise — A Clean Enterprise is an enterprise, in which all the information available is fully integrated. From a technical view every application can access every information electronically accessible. Any user can access every information electronically… …
114clean slate — If you start something with a clean slate, then nothing bad from your past is taken into account. (Dorking School Dictionary) *** A clean slate is a record of your work or actions that does not show past mistakes and allows you to make …
115make up — verb 1. form or compose (Freq. 19) This money is my only income The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance These constitute my entire belonging The children made up the chorus This sum represents my entire income for a year These few men …
116make it snappy — HURRY (UP), be quick (about it), get a move on, look lively, speed up; informal get cracking, step on it, move it, buck up, shake a leg; Brit. informal get your skates on; …
117make a clean breast — verb to be honest about something; to confess It is well, then that we should be frank, said the other. We both think more than we have said; let us make a clean breast. This masked figure that you saw, did you recognise it? …
118make a clean breast of it — to tell the truth about something, especially something bad or illegal that you have done, so that you do not have to feel guilty any more. After months of lying about the money, I decided to make a clean breast of it and tell the truth …
119clean someone out — (informal) BANKRUPT, ruin, make insolvent, make penniless, wipe out. → clean * * * informal use up or take all someone s money they were cleaned out by the Englishman at the baccarat table …
120make a clean breast of — {v. phr.} To admit (your guilt); tell all about (your wrong doing); confess everything. * /The police caught the hit and run driver and he made a clean breast of his crime./ * /Arthur worried because he cheated on the test, and finally he went to …
