They scrubbed themselves in the waves and, wet, put on their mother's dresses, the only clean things there were.
For me, the sprawling holy city of Qom has always meant three things: clean public bathrooms (often the only clean ones to be found on long road trips through Iran), mosques and mystery.
It will make it a lot easier, even if you only clean up a thing or two something is better than nothing.
The only thing that cleans up the pollution is the rain - take that away and you might as well get visitors to inhale nitrous dioxide under a towel.
They are never washed with water: air and friction are the only things that clean them, until they are absolutely pure, straight from the field.
Clothing is not the only that thing that has to be cleaned.
The only thing she wouldn't clean was the blood spatter on the wall beside the radiator.
For instance, only clean or straighten up things that are green, then move on to the next color until everything is put away.
The only good thing we could take from this, we decided, was the idea of a clean slate.
So I did pretty much the only thing I could do: cleaned myself up with soap, water, and TP, tossed the underwear in the bin, and endured a long, mortified train ride home.
