clear

clear

informal Completely; the entire way. Usually used before prepositional phrases. Wow, he threw the knife clear through the wall! I only meant to watch one or two episodes, but I ended up watching clear to the end of the first season!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

clear

1. mod. alcohol intoxicated. He was clear. You know, polluted.
2. mod. [of liquor] undiluted; neat. I like mine clear with just one ice cube.
3. tv. to earn a specific net amount of money. We just want to clear a decent profit. Nothing greedy.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) clear as a bell
  • (as) clear as anything
  • (as) clear as crystal
  • (as) clear as day
  • (as) clear as mud
  • (as) clear as the sky is blue
  • (as) clear as vodka
  • (as) easy as anything
  • (as) quick as anything
  • (one's) conscience is clear
  • as clear as a bell
  • as clear as black and white
  • as clear as day
  • as clear as mud
  • as clear as vodka
  • be as clear as crystal
  • be as clear as day
  • be as clear as mud
  • be crystal clear
  • be in the clear
  • clean as a whistle
  • clear
  • clear (one's) desk
  • clear (one's) lines
  • clear (one's) name
  • clear (one's) throat
  • clear (someone or something) out of (some place)
  • clear (something) for publication
  • clear (something) from (something)
  • clear (something) with (someone)
  • clear as a bell
  • clear as crystal
  • clear as day
  • clear as mud
  • clear as vodka
  • clear away
  • clear blue water
  • clear conscience, to have a
  • clear for publication
  • clear from some place
  • clear moon, frost soon
  • clear name
  • clear of
  • clear of (something)
  • clear off
  • clear one's name
  • clear out
  • clear out of some place
  • clear sailing
  • clear somebody's name
  • clear the air
  • clear the air, to
  • clear the atmosphere
  • clear the Augean stables
  • clear the Augean stables of (something)
  • clear the books
  • clear the deck
  • clear the deck(s)
  • clear the decks
  • clear the decks, to
  • clear the table
  • clear the way
  • clear the way for
  • Clear the way!
  • clear up
  • clear waivers
  • clear with
  • clear your desk
  • clear your throat
  • clear-cut
  • clear-eyed
  • coast is clear
  • coast is clear, the
  • come out of a clear blue sky
  • come out of a/the clear blue sky
  • crystal clear
  • crystal clear, be
  • Do I make myself clear?
  • easy, clear, quick, etc. as anything
  • free and clear
  • get the all-clear
  • give (one) the all-clear
  • give somebody/get the all-clear
  • give the all-clear
  • have a clear conscience
  • have a clear conscience about (someone or something)
  • have a clear head
  • Have I made myself clear?
  • have/keep a clear head
  • hear (one) loud and clear
  • in clear
  • in the clear
  • jump clear (of something)
  • jump clear of
  • keep a clear head
  • keep clear of
  • leap clear (of something)
  • leave the field clear for (one)
  • leave the field clear for somebody
  • loud and clear
  • make (one's) position clear
  • make (something) clear (to one)
  • make clear to
  • make position clear
  • out of a clear (blue) sky
  • out of a clear blue sky
  • out of a clear sky
  • out of a/the clear (blue) sky
  • read (one) loud and clear
  • read you loud and clear
  • see (one's) way (clear) to (doing something)
  • see one's way to
  • see your way clear to do something
  • stay clear
  • stay clear of
  • stay clear of (someone or something)
  • steer clear
  • steer clear of
  • steer clear of (someone or something)
  • steer clear of someone/something
  • steer clear of, to
  • steer/stay/keep clear
  • the coast is clear
  • the dust settles
References in classic literature
A good roguish thing is also the long silence, and to look, like the winter-sky, out of a clear, round-eyed countenance:--
That no one might see down into my depth and into mine ultimate will--for that purpose did I devise the long clear silence.
But the clear, the honest, the transparent--these are for me the wisest silent ones: in them, so PROFOUND is the depth that even the clearest water doth not--betray it.--
Thus Spake Zarathustra
"Antonio, it carries me clear out of myself just to hear you tell it; it must have been perfectly splendid.
Horses Tale
For the anchor "to go clear" means to go clear of its own chain.
Mirror of the Sea
She was one of the stupid lowly, she and her people before her--the ones that did the work, drove their oxen across the Plains, cleared and broke the virgin land, toiled all days and all hours, paid their taxes, and sent their sons and grandsons out to fight and die for the flag that gave them such ample protection that they were able to sell their wine for twenty-two cents.
Burning Daylight
I have taken the pains to select this instance of misrepresentation, and to place it in a clear and strong light, as an unequivocal proof of the unwarrantable arts which are practiced to prevent a fair and impartial judgment of the real merits of the Constitution submitted to the consideration of the people.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
After crossing the stream Vronsky had complete control of his mare, and began holding her in, intending to cross the great barrier behind Mahotin, and to try to overtake him in the clear ground of about five hundred yards that followed it.
"He's cleared it!" he thought, catching the thud of Gladiator's hoofs behind him.
Anna Karenina
Besides, he that clears at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to his custom: but he that cleareth by degrees, induceth a habit of frugality, and gaineth as well upon his mind, as upon his estate.
The Essays
yelled the seamen to Daggoo, but with one hand holding on to the heavy tackles, so that if the head should drop, he would still remain suspended; the negro having cleared the foul line, rammed down the bucket into the now collapsed well, meaning that the buried harpooneer should grasp it, and so be hoisted out.
Moby Dick LXVIII CXXXIV
Also, this cleared space he kept continually free from the fast-growing vegetation.
Jerry of the Islands
Even thus scaled back, Clear Skies still required power plants in make reductions in air pollution that went far beyond the cutbacks required by the existing Acid Rain program.
Partly sunny: why enviros can't admit that Bush's Clear Skies initiative isn't half bad
Clear Channel recently asked the case to be dismissed when 106.3 agreed to stop using the tag line.
Radio waves
One thread connecting them is the fact that the stations that have broadcast their programs are owned by Clear Channel Communications (CCC), a huge, San Antonio based media conglomerate that controls programming (both music and talk shows) for 1,225 radio stations.
War party's ministry of truth: the Woodrow Wilson administration pioneered using the media to cultivate uncritical loyalty, a technique being emulated by "conservative" media organs under President Bush