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Mister Clean; Mr Clean; Miss Clean noun a person in the public-eye who maintains an image that is beyond reproach US- Egil Krogh was the White Hose Mr. Clean, so straight an arrow that his friends mockingly called him "Evil Krogh." — Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men, p. 257, 1974
- The C.E.O. of a nonpublic Wall Street competitor sarcastically remarked that Buffet “came in as Mr. Clean, the open-eyed boy from Omaha.” — Roger Lowenstein, Buffet, pp. 403–404, 1995
- [Rugby player, Martin] Johnson gets my vote for his work rate and the reputation he has forged as captain of England, even if sometimes he’s not exactly Mr Clean. — Guardian, 30 December 2002
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