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| English | Russian |
| a case of cleaning up somebody else's mess | в чужом пиру похмелье (VLZ_58) |
| clean as a whistle | прямо (В.И.Макаров) |
| clean someone's clock | отправить в нокаут (Barack Obama cleaned her clock in the debates. • The heavily-tattooed Perez never recovered, getting nailed with flush head shots before a clean-up left hook cleaned his clock. 4uzhoj) |
| clean house | провести кадровые перестановки (U.S. and other officials said they have seen no evidence that Putin has cleaned house at the top of Russia’s spy agencies or held senior officials to account for costly misjudgments.  washingtonpost.com 4uzhoj) |
| clean up | одержать победу с численным преимуществом (Interex) |
| clean up | выиграть большую сумму (Interex) |
| clean up | сделать большую прибыль (To make a large profit, to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount. Interex) |
| clean up the mess | навести порядок (напр., в экономике: When Liberal PM Jean Chretien together with Minister of Finance Paul Martin came to power they knew immediately that they had to clean up the mess Justin Trudeau's father – Pierre Trudeau – created to the economy. They brought in austerity and cut spending 10% straight across the board. (vancouversun.com) ART Vancouver) |
| clean up the mess | расхлёбывать эту кашу (Now he's gone and you guys are going to clean up the mess. Get it? ART Vancouver) |
| dry-cleaning business | химическая чистка (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| dry-cleaning business | химчистка (Yeldar Azanbayev) |