laundry list

noun

, Informal.

1. a lengthy, especially random list of items:

   a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.

laundry list

noun

1. a list of items perceived as being long

   a laundry list of complaints

Word History and Origins

Origin of laundry list¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

These are two in a laundry list of troubling connections between the two companies.

From The Daily Beast

Lie Down with Lions (1985) gave a shoutout to gays in a laundry list of human rights to worry about.

From The Daily Beast

This issue is the most contentious in a laundry list of redactions Feinstein has now asked the White House to reverse.

From The Daily Beast

He was, in short, a walking laundry list of the social problems that have seized our social narrative.

From The Daily Beast

He mentioned the law among a laundry list of accomplishments made by the GOP-run legislature.

From The Daily Beast

In the morning sunshine she finds that it is an old laundry list.

From Project Gutenberg

Learn to make out a laundry list and to check it when the laundry comes home.

From Project Gutenberg