clean house

1. Wipe out corruption or inefficiency, as in It's time the Republican Party cleaned house. This usage is most often applied to an organization. [Slang; c. 1900]

2. Punish, give a beating, as in Whenever he was drunk he threatened to clean house on one and all. [Slang; c. 1900]

clean house

Slang

To eliminate or discard what is undesirable: The scandal forced the company to clean house.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Vsevolod	FSYE-vah-laht (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Medieval Slavic
Salomea	sah-law-ME-ah	Polish
Lamech	LAY-mik (English)	Biblical
Tecumseh	te-KUM-se	Native American, Shawnee
Sameer (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati
RosalÍA	-	Spanish, Galician