Meaning of dirty laundry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Unflattering or embarrassing facts, or questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which someone else may use as blackmail.
   idiomatic, uncountable
2. A clothes hamper or other container in which soiled laundry is placed.
   metonymically, uncountable
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dirty, laundry.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Place your dirty clothes in the dirty laundry.”

“If you bring your dirty laundry round on Saturday, I'll wash it for you.”

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