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Augean stables

noun

(Greek mythology) the extremely dirty stables that were finally cleaned by Hercules who diverted two rivers through them.

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"Augean stables" Quotes from Famous Books

... within my jurisdiction when I first took up mission work on the East Side." says a New York young woman, "was one to clean out which would have called for the best efforts of the renovator of the Augean stables. And the families in this tenement were almost as hopeless as the ...

— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

... in no very amiable tone. "I thought the ship was wrecked, with all that splashing and scrubbing. One would suppose that the vessel was as dirty as those Augean stables that fellow Hercules had to clean, by all ...

— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston

... lips and glances that had hitherto beguiled him, and lulled him into a state bordering upon stupor, now filled him with shame. Love, that marvellous panacea, had driven out the false, the impure visions of his heart, as surely and as thoroughly as ever Hercules cleansed the Augean stables. ...

— Adrien Leroy • Charles Garvice

Words linked to "Augean stables" : plural, stable, Greek mythology, plural form, stalls, horse barn