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do the washing

VERB
launder
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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

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

I do the washing up, tidy up the living room, think about dinner.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins




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