Prepare for action by removing everything not required.
⁂ Clear used adverbially means wholly, entirely, as, “He is gone clear away,” “Clear out of sight.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.