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clear the decksPrepare for an event or course of action by dealing with anything that might hinder progress: the company’s sale of Australian investments cleared the decks for expansion in the UK...- ‘Obviously now things have blown and people are clearing the decks and I just think anyone who's got anything to say should say it now,’ she said.
- Your Honours, may I clear the decks so far as the facts which of course are not as factual inquiry before this Court but without which we cannot win.
- He is to abandon two central planks of the government's crime legislation as he clears the decks before announcing the start of the general election campaign, expected in the next two days.
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