Clean up
Clean up verb - To make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff.
Spills
Both terms in one sentence
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And again in episode 4 of the second season, where Nyarko "accidentally" spills tea on Mahiro, then ushers him to the bathroom to clean up while she washes his clothes.
Source: Offscreen Teleportation -
Toof, an all-consuming slime monster originally designed to clean up oil spills, is Gluttony.
Source: Seven Deadly Sins -
In The Simpsons episode "Supercalifragilisticexpeali(Annoyed Grunt)cious", after Sharry and Bart and Lisa clean up the room by shoving everything in the closet, under the bed and under the rug, as soon as they close the door, everything spills back out, making the room messier than it started out.
Source: Exploding Closet
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