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spring cleaning (countable and uncountable, plural spring cleanings)

1. A systematic cleaning of a residence at the end of winter.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Methuen, page 1:

     The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of white-wash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms.

2. (figuratively, by extension) A systematic cleaning, reorganization, or weeding out of a system.

   Synonym: spring clean

   • 2020, Mac Miller, “Good News”, in Circles‎:

     I spent the whole day in my head / Do a little spring cleanin' / I'm always too busy dreamin'

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Further reading

• spring cleaning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia