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The art of relocating dirt to a place you'll find it later.
means The act of removing dirt, mess, or disorder from something to make it tidy.
from From Old English 'clæne' meaning pure or unsoiled, a word with Germanic cousins (related to German 'klein,' which oddly drifted to mean 'small' instead). The verb form 'clean' as in actively scrubbing something emerged later, with 'cleaning' as its gerund following naturally — the noun-ified version of the action, as old as the adjective's instinct to separate the pure from the dirty.
- deep clean myth
- Dust reappears within 24 hours, mostly from skin
- spring cleaning roots
- Tied to Persian Nowruz and Jewish Passover prep
- average time
- Americans spend about 6 hours weekly cleaning
- vacuum origin
- Early models were horse-drawn, parked outside windows