A spring clean is a thorough clean of the whole house, once a year. Do a spring clean.
It began when houses were heated by coal and a winter of soot had to come off. A spring clean is now as much about throwing things out as about cleaning anything.
1nounspring cleanA thorough clean of the whole house, once a year.
“The spring clean took a weekend and filled a skip.”
spring clean is a cleaning.
Practised in Cleaning & Housework