Clean up
Clean up verb - To make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff.
End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Both terms in one sentence
- Looney Tunes short "Drip Along Daffy": Daffy comes to "clean up this one-horse town", and in the end he does... as streetsweeper.
Source: Clean Up the Town - Instead, at the end of the episode, he's helping the ladies clean up their department by placing a box of hats on a shelf.
Source: Prophecy Twist -
In a non-fantasy sequence, Annie and Britta are trying to raise money to help clean up with Gulf Oil Spill and end up getting the contents of a drum of oil dumped on them and then end up fighting.
Source: Mud Wrestling
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End and Clean up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean_up/end
Clean up & End. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean_up/end>.
End or Clean up. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean_up/end.
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