spring-cleaning

spring-cleaning
/spring"klee"ning/, n.
1. a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
2. the activity of giving a place a complete cleaning: We've been involved in spring-cleaning and are exhausted.
[1855-60]

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