schmutzige Wäsche waschen
to air one's dirty laundry in public
Türkçe: kirli çamaşırları ortaya dökmek
In a sentence
Which form of waschen fills the gap?
Das Ehepaar ____ seine schmutzige Wäsche vor allen Gästen.
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Das Ehepaar wäscht seine schmutzige Wäsche vor allen Gästen.
How it is used
Idiom: to discuss private quarrels or scandals in public. Colloquial and always negative, often with 'in der Öffentlichkeit' or 'vor anderen'. The literal sense (doing the washing) also exists.
Other verbs that go with Wäsche
This is the choice the collocation turns on.
- Wäsche waschento do the laundry
- die Wäsche trocknento dry the laundry
- die Wäsche zusammenlegento fold the laundry
Other collocations built on waschen
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