dirty laundry
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Noun
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, laundry.
- If you bring your dirty laundry round on Saturday, I'll wash it for you.
- (idiomatic) Unflattering or embarrassing facts, or questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which someone else may use as blackmail.
- If you don't tell me why you did it, I'll air all your dirty laundry to your boss.
- 2017, David Montgomery, Thoughts on the Abundant Life, page 337:
- Look, we all have trouble in our lives but most of us aren't hanging our dirty laundry out there for the whole world to see.
- (metonymically) A clothes hamper or other container in which soiled laundry is placed.
- Place your dirty clothes in the dirty laundry.
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unflattering facts or questionable activities
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laundry that is unclean or soiled
a clothes hamper or other container used to place unclean or soiled laundry
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