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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

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

“When Charlie Finley called me, he said, ‘Personally, I think you’re all washed up, but my manager wants you,’ ” Andrews said.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2010

A few papers reported Forsyth's retort that Ross was "all washed up and not even 50 yet".

From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2010

He’d come over after a day in the fields, all washed up, the comb marks still in his wet hair, looking uncomfortable in his good guayabera.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez


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