| English | Russian |
| clean up a piece of work | заканчивать работу (a job, one's affairs, a lot of work, etc., и т.д.) |
| clean up one's act | взяться за ум (begin to behave in a better way, especially by giving up alcohol, drugs, or illegal activities: You're going to have to clean up your act if you want to get into a good college. • Tish has really cleaned up her act – she doesn't drink or smoke pot any more. Anglophile) |
| clean up one's act | браться за ум (begin to behave in a better way, especially by giving up alcohol, drugs, or illegal activities Anglophile) |
| clean up one's act | исправиться (Someday I'm going to clean up my act and start researching more carefully. bookworm) |
| clean up one's act | взяться за голову (в знач. "взяться за ум": You're going to have to clean up your act if you want to get into a good college. 4uzhoj) |
| clean up one's act | образумиться (chingachguk1977) |
| clean up one's act | встать на путь исправления (chingachguk1977) |
| clean up one's act | браться за голову (в знач. "браться за ум": However, in the end, it all goes wrong: Oliver's inventions do not seem to work, and so following his dreams' breakdown into nothingness through an alcoholic haze, his very humanity follows suit: "...Oliver has become an animal." Along the process, Elaine effectively kicks Oliver out of the house, exiling him to a lonely fate – "I told him to clean up his act or get out." 4uzhoj) |
| clean up one's act | начать вести себя подобающим образом |
| clean up after oneself | убирать за собой (VLZ_58) |
| clean up any excess with a paper towel | вытирать излишки бумажным полотенцем (Goplisum) |
| clean up for dinner | переодеться к обеду |
| clean up one's speech | причесать выступление |
| clean up one's speech | пригладить формулировки (out of a tradition of cleaning up leaders' speech, or out of political affinity, translators eliminate Trump's repetitions ... MBerdy.17) |
| clean up the house | полностью убраться в доме |
| clean up the kitchen | убираться на кухне (Olga Fomicheva) |
| clean up the mess | убрать |
| clean up the mess | разобраться с проблемами |
| clean up the mess | прибрать мусор |
| clean up the mess | убрать беспорядок |
| clean up the mess | наводить порядок |
| clean up the mess | прибирать за |
| clean up the mess | убрать за |
| clean up the mess | замести следы (Keitel was The Cleaner in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, whose job it was to clean up the mess after a gangland murder. vatnik) |
| clean up the place | приводить в порядок дом (the flat, the yard, the desk, etc., и т.д.) |
| clean up the place | убирать дом (the flat, the yard, the desk, etc., и т.д.) |
| Clean up your act | исправить поведение (Grebelnikov) |
| I wish you'd clean up the mess after repairing your bicycle | я бы хотела, чтобы ты убрал за собой весь хлам после починки велосипеда |
| I'd like to clean up before after dinner | я бы хотел перед обедом после обеда привести себя в порядок |
| the police decided to clean up the city | полиция решила очистить город и т.д. от нежелательных лиц (the town, the place, etc.) |
| we must clean up our own backyard before criticizing others | прежде чем критиковать других, нужно избавиться от собственных недостатков |
