do the washing
Example Sentences
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Many of us are time-poor now, but when you are cooking for one you have to do the washing up as well.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2019
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
“My mother wanted me to help her sweep and do the washing this morning.”
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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