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单词 to bust suds
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to bust suds
P6. Chiefly in African-American usage. to bust suds: to wash dishes, esp. as an occupation.
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1911 Chicago Defender 8 JulyBusting suds’..is an expression that borders on slang and is generally used to humiliate, or in the language of the street, to get back at somebody.
1959 Washington Post 27 Dec. a1/3 Jim spent his nights at the Gospel Mission on 5th st. by ‘busting suds’ (washing dishes) all day and going to the Mission chapel in the evening.
1991 Callaloo 14 815 I just got a bunch of jobs together, all different kinds of work. Some of them I see he wouldn't have done. He wouldn't have ‘busted suds’, for instance.
2009 M. L. Wilcoxon Happily Ever After vi. 13 Do you see those dirty dishes? Someone is going to have to load the dishwasher or bust some suds.
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