Meanings of thorough scrubbing in English

Not the thorough scrubbing, mind you, but the quick sponging and the plunge.

Let the thorough scrubbing be at least twice during the week, and the five-minute plunges on other days.

Tom Spink and Henry are told off to the task, and the thorough scrubbing of Buckwheat is assured.

He poured a bucket of hot water into the horse trough, and himself gave him a thorough scrubbing.

Then she treats her fore-legs to a thorough scrubbing, going over every portion with her tongue and jaws.

Give yourself a thorough scrubbing with normal soap, and that really is the best way to mediate the effects.

Then she stood up and with the soap and washrag gave herself the most thorough scrubbing of her life.

The flagged floor, the deal table, the dresser, with its shelves filled with crockery-allspoke of frequent and thorough scrubbing.

In a post on Facebook group Mums Who Clean, the Australian woman admitted she hadn't giving her doors a thorough scrubbing for years.

Everything had to be taken down and thoroughly overhauled, and all the images, pictures, furniture and everything else were subjected to a thorough scrubbing.

This is a thorough scrubbing of the part poisoned, just as soon as it begins to itch, with a nail-brush and soap and hot water.