bottom the house | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,dated)To clean a housefrom top to bottom; to clean a house extremelythoroughly.1957, Richard Hoggart,The Uses of Literacy‎[1],→ISBN:The half-length lace curtains keep out most of what little sun there is, but they establish your privacy: the window-ledges and doorsteps scrubbed and yellowed with scouring-stone further establish that you are a 'decent' family, that you believe in 'bottoming' the houseeach week.1978, Colin Gordon,A richer dust: echoes from an Edwardian album‎[2]:She had 'bottomed' the house(ie spring-cleaned) and cooked specially for me.1985, The Raving Beauties, editors,No holds barred‎[3],→ISBN:My mother-in-law pickled walnutsand covered floors in rag rugsshebottomed the houseeach spring

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