Meaning of wish-wash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any weak, thin drink.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. Talk, music, or art, or ideas that lack any value, substance, originality, or meaning; dreck.
   countable, uncountable
3. The sound of liquid sloshing
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Between the result⟳ of the above, and the ordinary wish-wash served as coffee, the difference is too great to be expressed.”

“The famous bohemian cafés, the Dôme, the Coupole and the Rotonde, still remained; the hooded iron⟳ stove still warmed the regulars settled beside the round tables from the wintry streets; the waiter, with the unvarying rudeness of Paris, served the "national coffee," that grayish-brown wish-wash which passed for coffee in Paris and which, like⟳ everything labeled "national," roused the suspicion that it wasn't what it was called but only resembled the real thing.”

“They got 250 grams of bread and wish-wash for breakfast; in the evening, he who had worked got kasha, wish-wash, and bread.”

“It consisted of bread and for the first course "the usual wish-wash” (balanda), “so-called soup in which several pieces of congealed cabbage floated.””

“It is a thing that fails altogether to interest⟳; a wish-wash that only serves to pass⟳ the time.”

“They confined their sermons on Sunday to the decorous wish-wash in which average men treated in a harmless way subjects to which the people were indifferent.”

“it is a clearing away of the wish-wash which assumes that lack of national distinction is an international virtue.”

“What I am doing is asking the senator to explain⟳ why Labor has come⟳ up with such wish-wash on this matter⟳.”

“But then all of that seems to be a bunch of wish-wash—nothing more than lip service.”

“This simile is accurate only if the object of analysis is considered in a void, but in the context of "an old Germanic culture" the performance loses its value and becomes only a "wish-wash."”

“And Ralph Vaughan Williams 'is now a solitary figure⟳, for his influence⟳ has served to produce⟳ a steady trickle of pentatonic wish-wash.”

“Martha steadily turned and turned, and the cream within the snowy white sycamore box went 'wish-wash, wish-wash, wish-wash, playing, after all, a very delicious tune⟳ in the young farmer's ears, for it suggested yellow butter, and yellow butter suggested sovereigns, and sovereigns suggested home comforts and saving, and above all, the turning of that handle⟳ suggested the winning of just the very wife to occupy⟳ that home.”

“Then in the morning the washing of the deck; rush⟳ comes an engine pipe on the floor–ceases, is renewed, flourishes about, rushes again; then suddenly half a dozen brooms, wish-wash, wish-wash, scrib-scrub, scratching and roaring alternately.”

“As they lay⟳ there, dazedly reliving the adventure that had brought them to this place⟳, they heard the sound⟳ of the wish-wash-wish of lapping water.”

“Yet at these moments, that sound⟳ was not a single sound⟳. There was another beat⟳ in the warmth of the wish-wash.”

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