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wash
verb- to kill US, 1941
- If push come to shove, we can wash him–but right now you need time, get it, time! — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 33, 1975
- With Brennan, if you’re late, you’re never. He will wash us in another fuckin’ moment. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 187, 1977
- If I go in the prison without any relatives, and I happen to get sent over the wall to the hospital and they want to kill me, they can wash me in no time flat. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 117, 1990
- to purge or expunge something US
- And I’ve got the right contacts at the courthouse. Your case is as good as washed. — Gerald Petievich, To Die in Beverly Hills, p. 155, 1983
- to give money obtained illegally the appearance of legitimacy through accounting and banking schemes US
- I gave you strict instructions ... that money is never to leave the dead-drop until it’s been washed, and then only by my instructions. — Stephen J. Cannell, Big Con, p. 313, 1997
- to shuffle a deck of cards US, 1965
- — Irwin Steig, Play Gin to Win, p. 143
- to receive favourable consideration US
- — Department of the Army, Staff Officer’s Guidebook, p. 68, 1986
- to be credible UK, 1849
- [I]t’s only natural you two want to make things easy for him–but it won’t wash!!! — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
▶ not a child in the house washed
nothing done, no progress made IRELAND- A month and a day until the start of all party tales on the future of the North and, as one official busily engaged in trying to devise ways around the worst obstacles put it recently, “not a child in the house washed.” — Irish Times, 9 May 1996
- I pushed past them. I didn’t think they’d normally let a push go but it was early in the day. A quarter to twelve and not a child in the house washed. — Eamonn Sweeney, Waiting for the Healer, p. 257, 1997
▶ wash mouth
to criticise someone or something without concern for the consequences TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1986- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ wash your face
when selling a lot by auction, to break even UK- — Bargain Hunt, 11 November 2004
▶ wash your mouth out; wash out your mouth
addressed to someone using filthy language or dirty words UK, 1961
Often as an imperative, and occasionally elaborated with “soap”, or “soap and water”.- If he [Boris Johnson] does have any serious political ambitions–a question still to be resolved–he will need to wash his mouth out with soap. — The Observer, 5 October 2003
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