单词 | to come out in the wash |
释义 | > as lemmasto come out in the wash d. In figurative phrase to come out in the wash: (of the truth) to be revealed, become clear; (of a situation, events, etc.) to be resolved or put right eventually. Cf. washing n. 8a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > solve [phrase] > be solved to come out in the wash1903 society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclosing or revealing [phrase] > (of the truth) to be revealed to come out in the wash1903 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 196 An' it all went into the laundry, But it never came out in the wash. 1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet ii. 29 A sort of fate, what?.. Heredity, and so forth. What's bred in the bone will come out in the wash. 1930 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Ten Creeks Run xxi. 351 That scandal has been such a long toime comin' out in the wash that you must have been mistaken. 1943 N. Coward This Happy Breed ii. i. 53 Ethel:..I thought everything was going to be all right... Frank: Don't worry, old girl, it'll all come out in the wash. 1947 ‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder vii. 145 ‘How on earth could Bill know?’.. ‘Oh, well, it'll all come out in the wash, no doubt.’ 1971 J. R. L. Anderson Reckoning in Ice vii. 147 When it all comes out in the wash—if it does—I suppose the company will meet our fees. 1978 J. Dunn in C. Hookway & P. Pettit Action & Interpr. 161 All human scientists..practise in the fond hope that the deficiencies of description or the errors and gaps in the intelligibility of record will all come out in the wash. < as lemmas |
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