| 释义 |
(as) clean as a whistle1Extremely clean or clear.The colors are crisp and clear, the picture as clean as a whistle....- This property is clean as a whistle and move in ready.
- I insisted Jon have a CT scan, a calcium scan, and he came up clean as a whistle.
1.1 informal Free of incriminating evidence: the cops raided the warehouse but the place was clean as a whistle...- Testing on samples from the suspicious cow is continuing but all tests done to date show that ‘she was clean as a whistle’, said the veterinarian.
- ‘[This] is a blow-by-blow fight… in the trenches of bureaucracy,’ cautions Githongo, who is known to be clean as a whistle.
- Even if you're clean as a whistle, you're guilty by association.
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