do the dishes
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“I do the dishes at home, I have to put my wash away. You gotta take the dogs for a walk, even if I don’t like to do that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Meredith Olan, director of the Banner House history museum, has been hauling water from the creek and boiling it just to do the dishes.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
He told Slate that Cannon’s reasoning reads as “kind of saying that she didn’t do the dishes and therefore the dishes are dirty.”
From Slate ● May 15, 2024
"It's like when I make him do the dishes and he always misses a bit, I couldn't rely on him," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
When we finish, I do the dishes, watching rainbow bubbles float up from the sink.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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