| 词汇 | clean one-s plow |
| 词源 | clean one’s plow. To beat someone severely in a fight, as in “He better watch it or I’ll clean his plow!” Said to derive from the way farmers clean their plows by dragging them through gravel. The phrase, first recorded in 1919, has several syno- nyms, including clean one’s clock, clean one’s canyon, and clean one’s greens. |
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