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clean as a whistle

phraseC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

Clean as a whistle means perfectly clean, or completely free of blame. The record was clean as a whistle.

The moral sense is the commoner and is used of records and investigations. A whistle only sounds clear when it is empty, which is where the comparison comes from.

Definitions of clean as a whistle

  1. 1phraseclean as a whistlePerfectly clean, or completely free of blame.C1

    “The audit came back clean as a whistle.”

clean as a whistle is a phrase.

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