English / proverb
Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness
MEANING IN ENGLISH
Maintaining physical, operational, and financial purity and rigorous organization is an essential virtue.
In context
01
The chief risk officer demanded pristine financial records, preaching that cleanliness is next to godliness in corporate governance.
02
Keeping a tidy trading desk and meticulous ledgers affirms that cleanliness is next to godliness for serious wealth builders.
Synonyms
orderliness is supreme,pristine rigor,moral discipline
Antonyms
chaotic disarray,fraudulent mess,slovenly negligence
Collocations
adage that cleanliness is next to godliness,belief that cleanliness is next to godliness,practice cleanliness is next to godliness