I might as well let him clean up his own mess.
But I didn't come here to clean up your mess.
And so we are here to try to clean up the mess of the 1980's.
The next, more difficult step will be to clean up the mess.
"They sent him out into the night to clean up their mess."
I didn't have the energy to clean up the mess that night.
Is it enough to just clean up the current mess?
Only two weeks to go until the election, and we can clean up the mess later, right?
"Maybe I was trying to clean up the mess you left me with."
It took nearly two months to clean up the mess.