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clean as a hound's tooth

clean as a hound's tooth adjective: very clean.

Adjective

clean as a hound's tooth (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, simile) Very clean.
  2. (idiomatic, simile) Very innocent.
    • Rogers left the Department of State in September, 1973, before the Watergate scandal had implicated Nixon and some of his principal White House aides. He couldn't have picked a better time to return to private life and all his friends were happy for him. Bill Rogers simply cleaned his desk and...1983, James C. H. Shen, “A Round of Calls”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105

Synonyms of clean as a hound's tooth

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Questions about clean as a hound's tooth

What does clean as a hound's tooth mean?
Clean as a hound's tooth means very clean.
What part of speech is clean as a hound's tooth?
Clean as a hound's tooth is an adjective.

Words near clean as a hound's tooth in the dictionary

  1. clean and jerk
  2. clean and jerked
  3. clean and jerking
  4. clean and jerks
  5. clean as a bean
  6. clean as a hound's tooth
  7. clean as a new penny
  8. clean as a new pin
  9. clean as a whistle
  10. clean bill of health
  11. clean bills of health

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