Clean up
Clean up verb - To make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff.
Both terms in one sentence
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Hearing Yen Sid approaching, Mickey tries to erase the Blot and quickly clean up... and ends up spilling even more thinner on the model, creating a gaping hole in it, and then flees back to his bedroom via the mirror before the wizard returns.
Source: Video Game / Epic Mickey -
Anxiety Dreams: A fun work-related one: Chet dreams that ball barrings that he had to clean up, come spilling out of nowhere, making the President of the United States (who was visiting with the Postmaster general) slip and hurt himself.
Source: Film / The Marrying Kind
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