wash (with sb)
informalIf an excuse or argument won't wash with someone, they are unlikely to believe or accept it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not believable
- belief
- by no stretch (of the imagination) idiom
- fanciful
- far-fetched
- fishy
- hard
- hear
- incredible
- incredibly
- likely
- miraculous
- pass
- pass (all) belief idiom
- smell fishy idiom
- unbelievably
- unconvincing
- unthinkable
- unthinkable
- untrustworthiness
- wash
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