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Saubermann

Saubermann

German

Noun

Saubermann m (genitive Saubermanns or Saubermannes, plural Saubermänner, feminine Sauberfrau)

  1. (humorous, chiefly politics) "Mr. Clean" (Someone with a squeaky clean image or who cares about public morality.)
    • 2004, Der Spiegel, issue 48/2004, page 18:
      Der selbst ernannte Saubermann des Europa-Parlaments […] ist selbst ins Visier der Betrugsermittler der EU geraten.
      The self-declared "Mr. Clean" of the European Parliament […] has himself become a target of the fraud investigators of the EU.

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