clean as a hound's tooth

adjective

Very clean.

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clean as a new pennyclean as a whistlecleanclean as a beanclean as a new pinimmaculatepristinespick-and-span
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Meanings

adjectiveclean as a hound's tooth (not comparable)
  1. idiomaticnot comparablesimileVery clean.

    Synonyms: clean as a new penny, clean as a whistle, clean, clean as a bean, clean as a new penny, clean as a new pin, clean as a whistle, immaculate

  2. idiomaticnot comparablesimileVery innocent.
    1 more example

    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 moved back to his old law firm, Rogers and Wells. He came through all this untarnished, as clean as a hound's tooth.

    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: clean-handed, clean as a whistle, blameless, clean, clean-handed, clean as a whistle, clear, dovelike

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveVery clean.

Similar
clean as a new pennyclean as a whistlecleanclean as a beanclean as a new pennyclean as a new pinclean as a whistleimmaculatepristinespick-and-spanspotlesssqueaky cleanstainlessunsoiledunsullied

adjectiveVery innocent.

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clean-handedclean as a whistleblamelesscleanclean-handedclean as a whistlecleardovelikeguiltlessinnocentinnocent as the babe unborninnocent as the child unbornirreprehensiblenonblameworthynot guiltyoffenselesspurerighteoussackless
Also see
blamelesscleanclean as a new pennyclean as a whistleclean-handedcleardovelikeguiltlessimmaculateinnocentinnocent as the babe unborninnocent as the child unbornirreprehensibleneat as a new pinnonblameworthynot guiltyoffenselesspurerighteoussacklesssinlessspick-and-spansqueaky cleanunblameableunblameworthyuncalculatingunguilty

Translations

Finnish putipuhdas, puhdas kuin pulmunen
  • putipuhdasvery clean, very innocent
  • puhdas kuin pulmunenvery clean, very innocent
French propre comme un sou neuf, blanc comme neige
  • propre comme un sou neufvery clean, very innocent
  • blanc comme neigevery clean, very innocent
Polish czysty jak łza
  • czysty jak łzavery clean, very innocent
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APA

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Chicago

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