spring clean
noun1
A systematic clean or clear out of something.
- Related terms
- spring cleaning
spring-clean
verbalso spelled spring-cleanEtymology Back-formation from spring-cleaning.
1
To carry out a spring cleaning of (a room, a house, etc).
- The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 1:
2
To engage in spring cleaning.
- Derived terms
- spring-cleaner