"sweep the board" meaning in English

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "sweeping the board",
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    {
      "form": "swept the board",
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        "past"
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      "form": "swept the board",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, “Canto III”, in The Rape of the Lock (poetry)",
          "text": "Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord!\nLed off two captive Trumps, and swept the Board.\nAs many more Manillio forc'd to yield,\nAnd march'd a Victor from the verdant Field.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London)",
          "text": "It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.",
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        "To win all the prizes in a competition."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To win all the prizes in a competition."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Card games",
          "orig": "en:Card games",
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            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
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      "glosses": [
        "To take all of the cards."
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        "(card games) To take all of the cards."
      ],
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        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats."
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        "(idiomatic) To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats."
      ],
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    {
      "form": "sweeps the board",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sweeping the board",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "swept the board",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "swept the board",
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          "ref": "1714, Alexander Pope, “Canto III”, in The Rape of the Lock (poetry)",
          "text": "Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord!\nLed off two captive Trumps, and swept the Board.\nAs many more Manillio forc'd to yield,\nAnd march'd a Victor from the verdant Field.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London)",
          "text": "It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.",
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        "To win all the prizes in a competition."
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        "(idiomatic) To win all the prizes in a competition."
      ],
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        "en:Card games"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take all of the cards."
      ],
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        "(card games) To take all of the cards."
      ],
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        "card-games",
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        "To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats."
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        "(idiomatic) To get enough votes in an election to gain all the seats."
      ],
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