pick (something) clean

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: to remove all the material that covers something

The birds picked the bones clean.

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On Super Bowl Sunday alone, sticky-fingered Americans might pick clean 1.4 billion of the chicken’s dinkiest, boniest cut. —

Matthew Korfhage, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021

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