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do the washing

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launder
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It’s almost the same, I cook, do the washing, you know whatever.

From Slate • May 1, 2018

A gorilla named John Daniel was raised in an English village as a human boy, had his own bedroom and could do the washing up.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2017

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




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