Definition

1. Adjective (tt):

   • Completely empty or bare: Describes a state where nothing remains; everything has been taken, used, or removed.
   • Completely exhausted or depleted: Describes a resource, supply, or money that has been totally used up.

2. Adverb (trgt):

   • Completely, utterly, totally: Used to emphasize the thoroughness of an action that results in a state of emptiness or depletion.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Tủ lạnh đã sạch trơn. (The refrigerator is completely empty.)
  • Sau trận lũ, nhà cửa sạch trơn. (After the flood, the houses were completely bare.)
• Adverb:
  • Bọn lừa đảo đã cuỗm sạch trơn số tiền đó. (The scammers made off with that sum of money completely.)
  • Chúng tôi đã ăn sạch trơn mọi thức ăn trên bàn. (We ate up all the food on the table completely.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase often carries a connotation of an undesirable or surprising total loss, leaving nothing behind.
• It can be used figuratively to describe non-physical things, such as ideas or feelings being completely gone.
  • Sau bài kiểm tra, đầu óc tôi sạch trơn. (After the test, my mind was completely blank.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sạch trụi (tt, trgt): A synonym meaning completely bare or stripped clean.
  • Cơn bão làm trụi sạch lá cây. (The storm stripped the trees of their leaves completely.)
• Sạch bách (tt, trgt): Colloquial term with a similar meaning of being totally empty or clean.

Synonyms

• Empty: containing nothing.
• Bare: without the usual covering or contents.
• Depleted: reduced in amount or exhausted.
• Cleaned out: having everything removed.

Related Idioms

• Sạch sẽ như chùi: (As clean as if wiped) – An idiom emphasizing extreme cleanliness or emptiness, similar in intensity to "sạch trơn."
  • Căn phòng được dọn dẹp sạch sẽ như chùi. (The room was cleaned until it was spotless.)

1. (như) sạch trụi