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Sweep is the everyday ritual of pushing soil from here to there, temporary conquest over entropy. Simple technology turning anarchy into orderly piles ready for disposal, brooms have been around forever.
But broad means more than just scrubbing. We hide what we cannot repair beneath rugs. Governments sweep headlines from scandals. Families bury abuse in secrecy; future generations learn not to speak of what everyone knows.
Clean sweep means total success and opponents gone completely. Sports clubs clean series. Politicians claim elections. Opponents are swept into jails or graves by dictators.
Sweeping generalizations paint everyone with the same brush, nuance sacrificed for simplicity. All politicians are corrupt; this assertion carries difficulty into easy answers.
Once tiny enough to scale flues, chimney sweeps were youngsters with soot-blackened lungs before puberty.