CLEAN AS A HOUND'S TOOTH

clean as a hound's tooth: translation

*clean as a hound's tooth & *clean as a whistle

1.

Rur. Cliché

very clean. (*Also: as \clean as a hound's tooth.) •

After his mother scrubbed him thoroughly, the baby was as clean as a hound's tooth.

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The car was as clean as a whistle after the Girl Scouts washed it.

2.

Rur. Cliché

innocent and free from sin or wrong. (*Also: as \clean as a hound's tooth.) •

Jane's record was clean as a whistle; she had never committed even the smallest infraction.