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do the dishes

Idioms  
  1. Wash the plates, glasses, and silverware used at a meal. For example, If you walk the dog, I'll do the dishes.


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The humanoid bot can do the dishes, clean and fold laundry, but for now it also requires a human puppet master.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

Meredith Olan, director of the Banner House history museum, has been hauling water from the creek and boiling it just to do the dishes.

From Salon Nov. 25, 2024

He told Slate that Cannon’s reasoning reads as “kind of saying that she didn’t do the dishes and therefore the dishes are dirty.”

From Slate May 15, 2024

"It's like when I make him do the dishes and he always misses a bit, I couldn't rely on him," she said.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2024

I ask you now, please go and do the dishes and do the weeds in the garden.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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