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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Clear the Decks Prepare for action by removing everything not required. Clear used adverbially means wholly, entirely, as, "He is gone clear away," "Clear out of sight." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Preparation | Set one's house in order, make all snug; clear the decks, clear for action; close one's ranks; shuffle the cards. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Clear the Decks (1929) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This was like the signal to clear the decks in a fleet. |
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Expressions using "CLEAR THE DECKS": clear the decks for action ♦ To clear the decks. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "CLEAR THE DECKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nekikészül vminek (to clear the decks for sg), hajót ütközetre előkészít (to clear the decks for sg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earclay ethay ecksday pregãti un vas pentru luptã (clear the decks for action), fi gata de luptã (clear the decks for action, throw oneself into breach), fi gata de acţiune (clear the decks for action). (various references) göra sig klar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-h-k-l-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: cheerleads, resketched. | |
-4 letters: checkered, cheerlead, decretals, desecrate, detachers, escheated, leathered, reaccedes, rechecked, restacked, retackled, retackles, reteaches, scratched, screeched, sheldrake, sheltered, skeltered, slathered, steelhead. | |
-5 letters: acceders, accreted, accretes, ashlered, cacheted, cacklers, caleches, casketed, catchers, cheaters, checkers, cheerled, chelated, chelates, clackers, clearest, crackled, crackles, cratches, creeshed, declares, decrease, decretal, desalter, deselect, detacher, detaches, ethereal, hacklers. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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