schmutzige Wäsche waschen

to wash dirty laundry

Türkçe: kirli çamaşırları yıkamak

Noun

Wäsche f.

Verb

waschen

Topic

Alltag und Redewendungen

In a sentence

Die Mutter wäscht die schmutzige Wäsche ihrer Kinder getrennt.

How it is used

Literal: 'to wash dirty laundry'; figurative: 'to air dirty laundry' (discuss private matters publicly). Colloquial/idiomatic. Use when a celebrity reveals family secrets in an interview. Nuance: always negative in figurative sense.

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

All collocations with Wäsche

Other collocations built on waschen

• jdm. den Kopf waschento give someone a scolding/reprimand
• Wäsche waschento do the laundry