it will all come out in the wash
it'll all come out in the wash
1. No permanent or lasting effects will occur as a result; things will normalize over time. I wouldn't worry too much about processing the invoice incorrectly; I'm sure it'll all come out in the wash. A: "Do you think Mark hates me after what I said at the party?" B: "Nah, it'll all come out in the wash." Don't worry about paying me back for dinner. It'll all come out in the wash eventually.
2. A lie or other secret will be uncovered eventually. Whatever the mayor is trying to cover up, it'll all come out in the wash.
See also: all, come, out, wash
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
it will all come out in the wash
Everything will be settled satisfactorily. This term, which alludes to the removal of dirt and stains by laundering, originated in Britain in the late nineteenth century, although a version of it occurred in Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605): Todo saldrá en la colada (“All will come out in the laundry”). “It all goes into the laundry, but it never comes out in the wash,” wrote Rudyard Kipling (Stellenbosh, 1881).
See also: all, come, out, wash, will
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- come out in the wash, it will
- it all comes out in the wash
- it'll all come out in the wash
- bill (one) for (something)
- bill for
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
- thereof
- salt the books
- come and go
- under normal circumstances