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
Bad fans, good fans, Jon Snow fans, Sansa fans, whatever outcome you were hoping for, you probably weren’t expecting this one, the happy ending equivalent of a sort-of-clean dishrag.
From Slate • May 20, 2019
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
I wouldn’t use it for a dishrag myself.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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