a clean sweep



a clean sweep

if you make a clean sweep, you win a competition or an election very easily or you win all the prizes in a competition China's women divers achieved a clean sweep in yesterday's competitions. Analysts are predicting a clean sweep for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections.
See also: clean, sweep

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Mihaila-Macedonian
Gennaro-Italian
Phunihel-Biblical Latin
RozĀLija-Latvian
Danijel-Slovene, Croatian, Serbian
Tiedemann-German (Archaic)