The city scrubbed up nicely.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

So there's a character who is sort wild man, and he's taken in, and he's kind of cleaned up and scrubbed and given some new clothes.

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It was scrubbed with bleach, while furniture, crockery and bedding was removed and floorboards and carpets ripped up and replaced.

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