Let’s explore the myriad of ways that the words “wash” and “washing” can be stretched and utilized for communicating a variety of pearls of wisdom.
We know for example that people sometimes forewarn that you should not wash your dirty laundry in public. I remember as a child that adults often cautioned that an improperly stated utterance could lead to getting your mouth washed out with soap. Another oft-cited phrase was that everything seems to ultimately come out in the wash.
If you were worried about something that you didn’t wish to be associated with, the recommended idea was to see if you could wash your hands of it. All sorts of washing-related considerations are commonly bandied around, including that you could be summarily washed up or washed over. Washing the egg off your face is an old adage that seems to still occasionally come up in conversations.
The use of colors to represent variations of washing is also relatively well-known. It is said that the notion of whitewashing traces back to at least the 1500s. There are concerns expressed about red washing, purple washing, and so on. I would dare say that perhaps greenwashing is one of the more frequently used catchphrases these days, referring ostensibly to an act of hollowness when touting sustainability and yet not backing up the asserted talk with any substance of walk-the-talk backbone.
You might not know about one of the newest versions of washing, namely AI Ethics washing.
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