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Laundry list

Posted by Sean on February 15, 2008 at 09:44:

In reference to the origin of laundry list - "a list of items to be laundered": Why would anyone ever have had the need to actually write down a list of clothes they need to clean? Why would this have been a common enough need to give rise to a popular expression?

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