| 单词 | a general sweep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa general sweep a. An act of sweeping or clearing up or (usually) away; a clearance: frequently a general sweep, (now) a clean sweep. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > clearing or sweeping away voidancec1450 sweepstake1542 swoop1607 sweep1712 sweeping1825 clearing1870 1552 Ordre Hospital S. Bartholomewes Pref. sig. A.v Thynkyng..this Hospital should haue made a generall swiepe of all poore and afflicted. 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 1 July (1948) II. 544 Here has been a great Sweep of Employmts; and we expect still more Removalls. 1720 J. Swift Run on Bankers in Wks. (1755) IV. i. 22 The bold encroachers on the deep Gain by degrees huge tracts of land, Till Neptune with one gen'ral sweep Turns all again to barren strand. 1801 T. Jefferson Writings (1893–9) VIII. 64 In Connecticut alone a general sweep seems to be called for. 1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 420 Would to Heaven the old Goths had made a cleaner sweep of it! 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral 229 To make the last remorseless sweep of these riches. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 144 A clean sweep had been made of all the beasts of burden in the neighbouring districts. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 236 There had been a clean sweep of the old incumbents from all the parishes for miles round. < as lemmas |
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