all washed up
Example Sentences
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If Wonka is all washed up, as Charlie tells us, why does his golden-ticket contest spark an international frenzy?
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2017
In New York at the end of the 1970s, many people thought painting was all washed up.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2017
At one point you describe certain figures involved with the break-in, and you say they had put off decisions about how to handle it “until they’d all washed up where they were now.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2012
A few papers reported Forsyth's retort that Ross was "all washed up and not even 50 yet".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2010
Audrey arrives at about ten, all washed up and smelling like clean.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
