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dirty laundry en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, uncountable) Unflattering or embarrassing facts, or questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which someone else may use as blackmail.
    • If you don't tell me why you did it, I'll air all your dirty laundry to your boss.
    • Look, we all have trouble in our lives but most of us aren't hanging our dirty laundry out there for the whole world to see. 2017, David Montgomery, Thoughts on the Abundant Life, page 337:
  2. (metonymically, uncountable) A clothes hamper or other container in which soiled laundry is placed.
    • Place your dirty clothes in the dirty laundry.
  3. (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, laundry.
    • If you bring your dirty laundry round on Saturday, I'll wash it for you.

Deriveds

air one's dirty laundry in public · wash one's dirty laundry in public

Relateds

dirty linen

Synonyms

dirty washing

Translations (28)

fi likapyykki (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · es trapitos sucios (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · tr kirli sepeti (a clothes hamper or other container used to place unclean or soiled laundry) · hu szennyes ruha (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · hu szennyestartó (a clothes hamper or other container used to place unclean or soiled laundry) · tr kirli çamaşır (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · uk брудна́ біли́зна (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · sv smutsig byk (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · fr linge sale (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · fi likapyykki (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · fi likapyykki (a clothes hamper or other container used to place unclean or soiled laundry) · hu szennyes (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · de dreckige Wäsche (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · sv tvättkorg (a clothes hamper or other container used to place unclean or soiled laundry) · ru гря́зное бельё (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · de dreckige Wäsche (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · pl brudy (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · tr kirli çamaşır (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · de Korb für schmutzige Wäsche (a clothes hamper or other container used to place unclean or soiled laundry) · de Schmutzwäsche (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · hu szennyes (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · de schmutzige Wäsche (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · hu szennyesláda (a clothes hamper or other container used to place unclean or soiled laundry) · de schmutzige Wäsche (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · uk брудна́ біли́зна (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · es trapos sucios (unflattering facts or questionable activities) · ru гря́зное бельё (laundry that is unclean or soiled) · sv smutstvätt (laundry that is unclean or soiled)