CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: Hyperbole:Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. This house is as clean as a whistle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thoroughly or neatly done; also, pure, unsoiled. The early nineteenth-century use of this term, which appears in William Carr’s The Dialect of Craven (1828) as a proverbial simile meaning “wholly” or “entirely, ” was in such guise as “Head taken off as clean as a whistle” (W. S. Mayo, Kaloolah, 1849).

Detailed explanation-3: -From Modern English Svartengren listed clean as a baby’s leg, clean as new preen, clean as print, clean as wheat, clean as a leek, clean as carrot, clean as a mackerel (or smelt), clean as a (new) penny, clean as a new pin, clean as a razor, clean as a pick, clean as a pink, and clean as a whistle.

Detailed explanation-4: -For many of you, “clean as a whistle” probably means really clean, as in not dirty. For example, “The sink was clean as a whistle after he scrubbed it.” Or maybe you’d say something like, “Since she’s never even had a speeding ticket, her record is clean as a whistle."

Detailed explanation-5: -The phrase originates in the work of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. In his 1786 poem, “The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, ” he wrote “her mutchkin stowp as toom’s a whissle.” Translated into a modern English dialect, that means that the protagonist’s bucket is as empty as a whistle.