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Chris -- 2018-04-11
In 30 BC, Horace remarked in the Epodes on the need to wash one’s clothes at home. Napoleon noted that the Spanish kept the washing of dirty clothes behind closed doors, in the family. In English the advice has become “don’t wash/air your dirty linen in public.” Here are two new ways of saying it: don’t air your dirty lining, and my favourite, let’s not wash our dirty leaning in public.
Reveal-all TV shows Whats the saying, never air your dirty lining in public.
League football forum Dont they know the Liverpool way and not airing your dirty lining in public.
Confessional forum entry Anyway ever heard the saying “Don’t air your dirty lining in public”?
Business leadership lessons His
strategy is the simple and obvious one: befriend your critic and he
would think twice before he launders your dirty lining in the open!
Member of Parliament expenses scandal It’s better than the alternative that could lead to litigation or prosecution where salacious, dirty leanings might be washed in public for those expenditures [s]quandered unflattering, shady locations like motels and accommodations unrelated to parliamentary assignments.
More political dirty dealings He also denied embezzlement of any party funds and warned against washing dirty leanings in the public as numbers count in election.
Chiefdom news forum I cringe when I hear some of us who are looked upon by society as people who have been to school, earned degrees and are better place to know what role the media is called to play, go around telling people how [this blog] is not worth it, how it is used to wash our dirty Leanings in the public, and you name it. Horrible stuff! What a display of academic nakedness!
Election news he sounded a word of caution to all supporters of the NPP: “Let us not wash our dirty leaning in public”.
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Do silver linings enter into things, do you suppose?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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It seems likely, doesn’t it, when you see them lined up like that. “Airing your dirty lining” as the evil twin of “finding the silver lining.” I looked just now but couldn’t find any explicit connections. How about some sort of clothesline influence too?
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Some spell-checkers will change the misspelled word “linin” to “lining”.
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