do the washing
Example Sentences
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It’s almost the same, I cook, do the washing, you know whatever.
From Slate • May 1, 2018
But in the high-altitude training camp in western Kenya where they live like monks, they muck out shared toilets and do the washing up just like everyone else.
From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2016
The New Man rose to prominence in the 1980s like an exotic new species, happy to do the washing up or change a nappy.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2014
Jeff Greenfield, a television commentator who was a speechwriter for Mayor Lindsay, put it more bluntly: “When we ask Sir Lancelot to feed horses and do the washing, the armor tends to tarnish.”
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2013
Maybe Mrs. McGarrity would let her do the washing again.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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