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"tidy desk" is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
You can use it anytime you want to refer to a desk that is neat and orderly in appearance. For example, "I always make sure I have a tidy desk before I leave work for the day."
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His tidy desk held a glass gavel.
She was known as a fastidious worker, an administrative associate who kept a tidy desk.
c) A tidy desk is the sign of an untidy mind.
So there may be some truth to the idea that having a tidy desk equates to having a fresh mind.
In stark contrast to the immaculately tidy desk of his predecessor, Hester's workstation was strewn with papers.
He offers a firm handshake, flashes a smile and swings his feet on to his neat and tidy desk.
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Tidy desks are a symptom of a lack of creativity, apparently.
Long Beach Centennial posters hang from the walls and the tidy desks are topped by MacIntosh and IBM personal computers.
We made our way along a phalanx of desks populated by a cadre of not particularly glamorous paralegals working quietly at their tidy desks.
She's actually quite the mousy sort, shy and obedient with an ever-tidy desk – which only makes Baba Yaga, who communicates primarily in raucous song, seem all the more extraordinary.
An employee, who asked not to be quoted, described his mentor as "very American" in a demand for super-tidy desks and that the forest of curving Artemis lamps are set at the same angle across the entire work floor.
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