doesn't wash
Example Sentences
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"People often see people with acne and their first thought can be to say her diet isn't good, she doesn't wash her face, she doesn't drink water, but they don't understand," she said.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024
Judge Watkins said that doesn’t wash, at least for the anti-immigrant label.
From Washington Times • May 1, 2023
Somehow, that toy marketing argument just doesn't wash.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2021
The concept of “post-brokeness stress disorder” speaks to the tenuous reality of upward mobility, and the stubborn shame that America attaches to poverty, something which doesn’t wash off with a newly fortified bank account.
From Slate • Jun. 13, 2018
The seawater falls over them in waves, but it doesn’t wash them away.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
