The term 'laundry list,' which now means 'a usually long list of items,' was once an actual list of things dropped off at a laundromat.

20 мар. 2018 г. · The laundry list proper originated in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century when many sent their laundry out to be cleaned.

29 окт. 2021 г. · This phrase is purported to mean 'A long or exhaustive list of people or things.

3 апр. 2023 г. · As Merriam-Axtarishster explains in an etymological note, the expression first appeared in the 19th century with the rise of commercial laundry ...

5 июн. 2008 г. · The marking was to make sure the laundry got back to the right people, and the sorting was to make sure the right stuff got cleaned together in ...

The earliest known use of the noun laundry list is in the 1950s. OED's earliest evidence for laundry list is from 1958, in the Spectator.

9 янв. 2021 г. · Although the term laundry list originally specified a piece of paper detailing all the items in a load of clothing sent out to be washed and ...

The plural for the term is laundry lists. The original usage was in the 1960s in actual laundries. In those days it was uncommon to wash one's clothes at home; ...

noun. , Informal. a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.

US and Canadian a list of items perceived as being long.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.