spring-cleaning
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3.1
- noun
- /sprɪŋ ˈkliːnɪŋ/
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limpieza de primavera
- Every year, we set aside a weekend for spring-cleaning to freshen up our home after winter.
- spring-cleaning day
- just spring-cleaning
After all, it's time for some spring cleaning.
- After all, it's time for some spring cleaning.
- Yeah, All right, well, today we are tackling the spring cleaning on the show.
- Yeah, it's almost spring, Ryan, and spring cleaning is in the air.
- And but, you know, there's the spring cleaning checklist of oh, do this every week.
- I do have some spring cleaning videos coming up soon on my channel.
- But we got into the, the, the mode of sort of late spring cleaning, summer cleaning, I guess.
- Now my strategy today is simple and I call it spring cleaning.
- And yeah, let us, let us commence, let us tackle the Depop spring cleaning magic.
- It was kind of my spin on wrapping up the new year kind of spring cleaning in my brain and hopefully helping you guys along the way.
Examples
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It's time for a little spring cleaning.
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Yeah, it's almost spring, Ryan, and spring cleaning is in the air.
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Yeah, All right, well, today we are tackling the spring cleaning on the show.
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Well, let me tell you, I think it might be time for a spring cleaning and refresh.
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The Mole had been working hard, spring-cleaning his little home.
Fiction book (1996) -
And, you know, we're doing the spring cleaning and, you know, rearranging things and getting rid of junk.
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It's time for a big spring-cleaning to get rid of the clutter in the house.
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She loves spring-cleaning her house and making everything neat and tidy for the new season.
Synonyms
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1.5
The activity of making a place or thing clean
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1.2
Cleaning the rooms and furniture in a house
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Surface Forms
Morphology
spring-cleaning = spring-clean (transparent) = spring + clean + ing
Formed from the verb 'spring-clean' with the productive nominalizing suffix '-ing', so the meaning (cleaning done in spring) is directly derivable.
Etymology
Spring-cleaning comes from doing a big clean in the season spring, when winter ends and people open windows to let in 'fresh air' and 'light'. That's why spring-cleaning means a deep, complete clean of the house.