CLEAN (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING) OUT


Meaning of CLEAN (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING) OUT in English

clean somebody/something out phrasal verb ( see also ↑ clean )

1 . clean something ↔ out to make the inside of a room, house etc clean or tidy:

We’d better clean out the attic this week.

2 . clean somebody out informal if something expensive cleans you out, you spend so much money on it that you now have very little left:

Our trip to Paris cleaned me out.

3 . clean somebody/something out informal to steal everything from a place, or all of someone’s possessions

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