Meaning

2 senses

  1. (idiomatic, not comparable)Very clean.

  2. (idiomatic, not comparable)Completely innocent; beyond moral reproach.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. It's as clean as a whistle.

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  2. I'm clean as a whistle.

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  3. When Tom had finished washing the car, it was as clean as a whistle.

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  4. "Did you find any dirt on him?" "No, he's clean as a whistle."

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Translations

2 languages

Synonyms

34 synonyms
cleanA1clearA2innocentB1pureB1clean as a beanclean as a hound's toothclean as a new pennyclean as a new pinimmaculatepristinespick-and-spanspotlesssqueaky cleanstainless

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cleanA1cleanerA2cleanlinesscleanlyC1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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