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"ref": "1920, Scouting for Girls: Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts, First Edition, The Girl Scouts, Inc., page 126",
"text": "Learn how to make out a laundry list and to check it when the laundry comes home."
}
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"Originally, a list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered."
],
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"(archaic) Originally, a list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered."
],
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"word": "laundry mark"
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"_dis1": "44 27 29",
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"word": "shopping list"
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"ref": "2007 July 31, Ceri Au, “Fighting for the Right to Flush”, in Time",
"text": "Among the laundry list of inconveniences most of us can't abide: cold coffee, airport delays, the high price of gasoline.",
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},
{
"ref": "2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "The senior Liberal Democrat, echoing the private views of other senior figures across parties, said a daily \"laundry list\" sent out by the party headquarters contributes to the \"diminution of individual expression or even thought in politics\" as politicians are expected to repeat a positive central message over and over again.",
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"A long and often tedious list of items."
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"(idiomatic, by extension) A long and often tedious list of items."
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"An unrealistic list of skills, qualifications and experiences, as demanded by employers when hiring staff. Similarly, an equally unrealistic skill set claimed by a candidate on a résumé."
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"(colloquial) An unrealistic list of skills, qualifications and experiences, as demanded by employers when hiring staff. Similarly, an equally unrealistic skill set claimed by a candidate on a résumé."
],
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"sense": "unrealistic list of skills",
"word": "purple squirrel"
},
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"word": "unicorn"
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"ref": "1920, Scouting for Girls: Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts, First Edition, The Girl Scouts, Inc., page 126",
"text": "Learn how to make out a laundry list and to check it when the laundry comes home."
}
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"Originally, a list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered."
],
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},
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"ref": "2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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"An unrealistic list of skills, qualifications and experiences, as demanded by employers when hiring staff. Similarly, an equally unrealistic skill set claimed by a candidate on a résumé."
],
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"(colloquial) An unrealistic list of skills, qualifications and experiences, as demanded by employers when hiring staff. Similarly, an equally unrealistic skill set claimed by a candidate on a résumé."
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