clean house
(intransitive, figuratively) To reform a workplace, organization, etc.
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Exactly. Complying in advance doesn’t just apply to Trump. It applies to the whole corrupt government. Time to clean house and start over. Besides, Trump has eliminated everything positive the government was doing.
Will Stancil said it's time to clean house of all the bad queer people off this platform. A rape victim who has been harassed by liberals on here for months has now been permanently suspended. Meanwhile, he compares u…
@safety.bsky.app you need to clean house on whoever made this moderation decision because that person is clearly incompetent and they are making your company look like a literal circus.
Cleaning the house today so we have a nice clean house to come home to next week, have been neglecting some things and it’s going to feel so good when the clutter is gone
if i was going to "clean house" on this site i would start with economists, lawyers, and people who post bloomberg terminal screencaps
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(intransitive, figuratively) To reform a workplace, organization, etc. by removing undesirable personnel or procedures.
Some companies that others perceived as being late to the party really cleaned house: Facebook was after MySpace
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(intransitive, literally) To clean the interior of a house.
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(intransitive, slang) To win overwhelmingly.
“Exactly. Complying in advance doesn’t just apply to Trump. It applies to the whole corrupt government. Time to clean house and start over. Besides, Trump has eliminated everything positive the government was doing.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Will Stancil said it's time to clean house of all the bad queer people off this platform. A rape victim who has been harassed by liberals on here for months has now been permanently suspended. Meanwhile, he compares us to Kiwifarms and himself to Isabel Fall. Pure fucking evil.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“@safety.bsky.app you need to clean house on whoever made this moderation decision because that person is clearly incompetent and they are making your company look like a literal circus.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Cleaning the house today so we have a nice clean house to come home to next week, have been neglecting some things and it’s going to feel so good when the clutter is gone”
— Bluesky· May 2026“if i was going to "clean house" on this site i would start with economists, lawyers, and people who post bloomberg terminal screencaps”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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