dishrag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dishrag
Example Sentences
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Smack in the middle is Asaf, whom the play proceeds to put through a tribal-political wringer that leaves him — and left me — a limp dishrag.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2024
What, you expected J Lo to turn up in a smock with her hair tied up in a dishrag?
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2020
Once rumpled as a dishrag, too weak to stand and helplessly tumbled by waves, he was stranded and alone when he was discovered near death on Olympic National Park’s Rialto Beach in August 2016.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2019
It’s thoughtful, disturbing, insightful drama that will leave you as wrung out as a sopping dishrag hung out to dry.
From Slate • Mar. 23, 2017
She balls the dishrag under one set of finger bones.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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