| Compound Forms/Forme composte |
| clean bill of health | | | certificato di fine malattia |
| clean checkup | n | US (clean bill of health, confirmation that sb is healthy) | certificato di buona salute nm |
| He was worried by a chest pain but the cardiologist gave him a clean checkup. |
| Per poter frequentare la palestra è necessario presentare un certificato di buona salute. |
| clean hands | npl | figurative (lack of guilt) figurato | mani pulite nfpl |
| The party is searching for someone with clean hands to run for the office. |
| Non pensare male, io in questa storia ho mantenuto le mani pulite. |
| clean hands | npl | literal (hands that are free of dirt) | mani pulite nfpl |
| You should have clean hands before you eat. |
| Devi avere le mani pulite prima di toccare il cibo. |
| clean house | v | literal (do housework) | pulire casa vtr |
| Now that spring has come, it's time to clean house. |
| Tutti i sabati mi tocca pulire casa. |
| clean house | v | figurative (business, government: reform , change personnel) figurato | dare una ripulita vtr |
| When staffing his office, the first thing a new president does is clean house. |
| Con la scusa della crisi, molte aziende hanno dato una ripulita del personale non gradito. |
| clean house | n | (house that is free of dirt) | casa linda nf |
| Trevor tried to cheer me up by saying that women with clean houses are boring. |
| | | casa pulita nf |
| Ha provato a tirarmi su dicendo che le donne con la casa pulita sono noiose. |
| clean off | | | togliere |
| clean out | vtr | literal (sth: clear or dispose of) | vuotare vtr ⇒ |
| He's already cleaned out the cookies and has now made a start on the cake. |
| We have to break into the sewer line because the builder didn't install a clean out. |
| Per favore vuota il cestino della carta straccia. |
| clean out | vtr | literal (place: empty or clear) | svuotare, sgomberare vtr ⇒ ⇒ |
| I'll clean out the garage after dinner. It's so cluttered that I can't park my car any more. |
| Devo svuotare la cantina da tutte le cianfrusaglie che ho accumulato. |
| clean out | vtr | informal (take all money from: sb, sth) informale | ripulire vtr ⇒ |
| Before he disappeared he cleaned out the cash register. |
| Prima di scappare con l'amante la moglie ha ripulito la cassaforte del marito. |
| clean room | n | (room that is free of dust and dirt) | camera pulita, stanza pulita nf |
| Hotel guests expect to find a clean room when they check in. |
| Quando rientro in albergo mi aspetto di trovare la stanza pulita. |
| clean room | n | (laboratory: sterile environment) | camera bianca nf |
| Hardware manufacturing requires a clean room for creating central-processing chips. |
| Indossare la tuta sterile prima di entrare nella camera bianca. |
| clean up | | | pulire v |
| clean cut | adj | (architecture, design: simple, distinct shapes) | ben delineato agg |
| Modernist architects abandoned the frills and ornamentation of the Victorian and Edwardian eras in favour of simple shapes and clean-cut lines. |
| Quella colonna è proprio ben delineata. |
| clean-looking | | | dall'aspetto pulito adj |
| clean-shaved | | | rasato di fresco adj |
| clean shaven | adj | (having no stubble or beard) | ben rasato agg |
| Note: hyphen used when term is before noun |
| He usually wears a beard in the winter but goes clean-shaven during the summer months. |
| Mi raccomando, al colloquio vacci ben rasato. |
| clean-up crew | | | squadra di pulizia |
| come clean | v | informal (confess, own up to sth) | confessare, ammettere la propria colpa vtr ⇒ |
| You might feel better if you go to your boss and just come clean about what you did. |
| Se vuoi sentirti veramente meglio devi ammettere la tua colpa. |
| dry-clean | | | pulire a secco v |
| environmental clean up | | pol, ammin, ecc | disinquinamento nm |
| environmental clean-up | | rimozione rifiuti pericolosi | ripristino ambientale nm |
| hand-clean | | | atto a pulirsi le mani |
| spring-clean | | | pulizie di Pasqua |
| vacuum-clean | | | aspirare v |
| wipe the slate clean | | | cominciare una nuova vita |
| with clean hands | | | con le mani pulite |
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