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German
Etymology
sauber (“clean”) + Mann (“man”)
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- Hyphenation: Sau‧ber‧mann
Noun
Saubermann m (strong, genitive Saubermannes or Saubermanns, plural Saubermänner, feminine Sauberfrau)
- (humorous, chiefly politics) "Mr. Clean" (Someone with a squeaky clean image or who cares about public morality.)
2004, Der Spiegel, number 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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