cleaned house

phrase

past tense of clean house
as in cleaned (up)
to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff We should clean house before the guests begin to arrive.

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Recent Examples of cleaned house But at the end of last season, the Cardinals cleaned house, putting Toney on the free-agent market. Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 9 July 2026

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“Cleaned house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleaned%20house. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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