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Whitewashed

Said of a person who has taken the benefit of the Insolvent Act. He went to prison covered with debts and soiled with “dirty ways:” he comes out with a clean bill to begin the contest of life afresh.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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