Clean as a whistle (... rất sạch sẽ / lý lịch rất trong sạch) Meaning: If something is as clean as a whistle, it's extremely clean, or for a person it can mean they have a perfect record and have never done anything illegal. The phrase may have originated in the 1800's, and may have come from "clear as a whistle," which referred to the almost completely pure sound that a whistle makes.

For example:

1. Everything in a hospital should be as clean as a whistle.
2. He hasn't got a criminal record - he's clean as a whistle.

The school thought their new teacher's record was as clean as a whistle because he hadn't told them about his arrest for drunk driving his dirty bathroom his cheating at cards

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