Today’s English
August 15th,2017
August 15th,2017
Cleanliness is next to godliness, isn’t it? It’s time to enrich our vocabulary on cleanliness both in and out.
If something like a pot, room, board, shoe or dress is clean, it’s washed, polished, cleansed, mopped, broomed, brushed, wiped, sponged, flushed, rubbed, scrubbed.white,neat, tidy and spotless. If you keep your room very clean and tidy, you keep them in apple-pie order.
If something like a pot, room, board, shoe or dress is clean, it’s washed, polished, cleansed, mopped, broomed, brushed, wiped, sponged, flushed, rubbed, scrubbed.white,neat, tidy and spotless. If you keep your room very clean and tidy, you keep them in apple-pie order.
1. Have you washed the plates?
2. Don’t forget to flush the urinal after use.
3. Just now I mopped the floor.
4. The days are gone since my wife polished my shoes.
5. He always keeps his room in apple-pie order.
2. Don’t forget to flush the urinal after use.
3. Just now I mopped the floor.
4. The days are gone since my wife polished my shoes.
5. He always keeps his room in apple-pie order.
If a paper, form, writing pad or note is clean, it’s untouched, unused, empty, blank, bare, fresh, plain, clear, new, pristine and unfilled.
1. Still many leaves of my note are unused.
2. She kept the application form unfilled as she had some doubts.
3. These are pristine and you would feel happy to use them first.
1. Still many leaves of my note are unused.
2. She kept the application form unfilled as she had some doubts.
3. These are pristine and you would feel happy to use them first.
If air, water or food is clean, it’s fresh, pure, hygienic, healthy, uncontaminated, clear, unadulterated and distilled.
1. The patient needs clean air. Please open the window.
2. Get two bottles of distilled water for the battery.
3. Are these fruits fresh?
1. The patient needs clean air. Please open the window.
2. Get two bottles of distilled water for the battery.
3. Are these fruits fresh?
If you are a clean person, you are honest, virtuous, straightforward, decent, righteous, chaste, guiltless and innocent. The expressions to have clean hands and keep your hands clean also mean the same. Then you are a squeaky-clean person.
1. Our HOD has clean hands and she won’t be afraid of anybody.
2. He’s such a squeaky-clean person and nobody can question him.
1. Our HOD has clean hands and she won’t be afraid of anybody.
2. He’s such a squeaky-clean person and nobody can question him.
The idioms “as clean as a whistle” and “ as clean as a new pin” are used when something is extremely clean. If you clean your clock, it means, you beat or defeat somebody in the game quickly and effectively. When you wipe the slate clean, you actually give a fresh or new chance to someone.
1. I have never seen such a place as clean as a whistle/new pin.
2. Our players are much trained and they can easily clean your clock soon.
3. Don’t worry. Let me wipe the slate clean for you. (=let me give you a fresh chance)
2. Our players are much trained and they can easily clean your clock soon.
3. Don’t worry. Let me wipe the slate clean for you. (=let me give you a fresh chance)
The word “clean" is likely to be misunderstood in the expressions such as “make a clean breast of something” (= to frankly tell everything) and “clean your nose" (=to stay away from troubles). If you clean your plates, it means that you have eaten all food served to your plate. Officials use the phrase “clean bill of health" that is a statement certifying something to be safe, legal or in good financial condition..
1. If only you make a clean breast of the matter, I can help you.
2. First learn how to clean you nose that’s very important when you help others.
3. Don’t waste the food. You have to clean your plate.
4. Our financial minister has produced clean bill of health on Indian economy.
1. If only you make a clean breast of the matter, I can help you.
2. First learn how to clean you nose that’s very important when you help others.
3. Don’t waste the food. You have to clean your plate.
4. Our financial minister has produced clean bill of health on Indian economy.
Relax!
Father: Don’t forget to clean your plate.
Father: Don’t forget to clean your plate.
Son: it’s already cleaned by mom. When I finish, she will again clean it.
Father: First learn some English idioms and they will help you to clean your nose.
Son: my nose is already clean dad.
Father: ………….?!
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