laundry list
laundry list · laundry lists
литания, ектенья
endlos lange Liste, Litanei
A long and often tedious list of itemsA long and often tedious list of items.
» I have a laundry list of things to do today.
timmartin · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
3 senses(broadly, idiomatic)A long and often tedious list of items.
endlos lange Liste, Litanei
(colloquial)An unrealistic list of skills, qualifications and experiences, as demanded by employers when hiring staff, or claimed by a candidate on a résumé.
(archaic)Originally, a list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered.
Wäscheliste
Examples
2 sentencesI have a laundry list of things to do today.
They presented a laundry list of arguments about how he is trying to fool consumers.
ruОни презентовали попунктовый перечень примеров того, как он пытается надурить потребителей. — shanghainese
Translations
2 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 2
list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered:
long and often tedious list of items:
Forms
plural: laundry lists| Singular | laundry list |
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