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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