Washing versus Washing up

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi

Last night I did washing and washing up!

Could you please shed some light on the sentence?

Which one is clothes and which one is utensils?

Tom

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Hi, Tom
Washing up refers to utensils :smiley:

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Hi Tom,

You’ll have to ask Amy what she means by wash up. Here this side of the Atlantic it means wash the dishes.

Alan

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Hi Tom

For clothes, I’d say I did the wash.

For dishes, I’d say I did the dishes.

:wink:

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Amy, and the verb for washing hair? To shampoo? To hairwash :slight_smile:

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And what about the brainwashing, Tamara? :lol: :lol:

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No, Pamela,
[size=200][color=red]I did my hair![/size] :lol:

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Hi

Wash up could also be for hands as in:
Go and wash up - your dinner’s ready.

Shampoo in brief is a soap used for washing hair.

Brainwash (V): to make someone believe something by continually telling them that it is true and preventing any other information from reaching them.
Example:
The government is trying to brainwash them into thinking that war is necessary.

Brainwashing (n):
Example:
Many people thought the religious sect was guilty of brainwashing

regads
Baraa

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To do your hair doesn’t mean to wash your hair. It means to give yourself a hairdo.

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Washing up without a direct object is not understood to mean washing dishes in my part of the English-speaking world. It usually means to wash oneself (short of taking a bath or shower), maybe just one’s hands and face.

Note that we also don’t say have a wash here, and some people would have trouble understanding it.

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Jamie, could you give us a slightly more detailed description (from a man’s point of view) of what is entailed in “giving yourself a hairdo”? :wink:

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Now, that’s what I call a do!


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Amy, :?: :?: :?:

Please explain!

Tom

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Hi Tom

I asked Jamie to explain give yourself a hairdo in more detail, so when I said “That’s what I call” I meant “That’s my definition of”.

I was playing with the word do. My reference was to hairdo and “do” meaning a form of entertainment — because I found the hairdo in Jamie’s last picture particularly entertaining and tidy. :wink: :smiley:

Amy

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:slight_smile:

:slight_smile: :lol:

Good Sun-day to all! :slight_smile:

Amy, thank you for your answer (, heating the imagination :slight_smile: ) [size=67]Even though I’m not Pamela :slight_smile: :wink: [/size])

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Hi Tamara

I love the picture. :smiley:

[size=75]I know you’re not Pamela.[/size] :smiley: But after Pamela’s response about “brainwashing”, I wanted her to refer back to what you had written before I posted “I did my hair”. I had assumed your comment indirectly referred to another thread in which the “doing of hair” was mentioned… :wink:

Amy