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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Adverb: neatly; Adjective: clean as a whistle. |
Completeness | Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Pick clean, clean as a whistle. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clean as a whistle | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"CLEAN AS A WHISTLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clean as a whisel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-e-h-i-l-l-n-s-s-t-w" | |
-4 letters: anaesthesia, chatelaines, ethicalness, wealthiness. | |
-5 letters: anesthesia, anthelices, athanasies, caseinates, castellans, celestials, chatelaine, chatelains, cleanliest, clientless, hesitances, selachians. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 45 41 4E      41 53      41      57 48 49 53 54 4C 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000101 01000001 01001110 00100000 01000001 01010011 00100000 01000001 00100000 01010111 01001000 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L E A N   A S   A   W H I S T L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0045 0041 004E      0041 0053      0041      0057 0048 0049 0053 0054 004C 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374639354823553235257424353544639 |
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