Citations:clean up

English citations of clean up

To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess.
- 1978 August 19, Tim Cwiek, Karen DeCrow, “Interview: Former NOW President DeCrow Talks About Gay Issues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 7:
  A lot of members of the gay community […] are not political. They feel somehow it's not relevant to their lives. I would say it's very relevant, just like the women need ERA. You can't clean up your own heads living in a society that's sexist and you can't clean up your own self-hate in a society and be self-actualized as a gay person when the laws are all against you.
- 2007 July 13, 8 out of 10 Cats, season 5, episode 5, Jimmy Carr (actor), via Channel 4:
  Romance is dead; men killed it, and made women clean up the mess.