The Collaborative International Dictionary
Augean \Au*ge"an\, a.
(Class. Myth.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
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Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
Augean stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.
Usage examples of "augean stable".
Blaine himself, had the usual politician's long memory, and Theodore was forced to content himself with Civil Service reform, an Augean stable where not even Hercules would have dreamed of putting hand to shovel.
It picked Krona up and delivered him neatly into a steaming heap of Augean stable sweepings.
So far, that Hercules has failed to clean up his psychic Augean stable.
The boiler and the power house squads were taken on, and reported gloomily about their Augean stable.