do the washing
Example Sentences
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Joseph: “You do the washing up. I do the laundry.”
From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2021
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
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
Perhaps I could hire Susannah to do the washing up.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
