come out in the wash
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
1
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Of problems or difficulties, to work out, resolve, or become understood eventually and naturally.
verb
Of advantages and disadvantages, to cancel each other out.
verb
Of the truth: to be inevitably revealed in the future.
Example Sentences
- "It may look like a huge mess now, but I expect that it will all come out in the wash as time goes on."
- "The number 12 bus is faster, but the number 17 stops nearer my house, so it all comes out in the wash."
- "I have heard it said that “Wrong grades are wrong both ways, and so although any GCSE certificate with 8 grades might have two wrong grades, one is too high and the other too low. So it all comes out in the wash. It doesn’t matter.”"
- "I think there was some comfort, however, in being able to buy the space previously and obviously the retailers used to benefit from that cash as well, but sometimes they would be promoting a title that would ultimately sell less than another just because they'd been given some marketing money. So, it comes out in the wash one way or another."
- "You can do everything you can to hide this, but everything comes out in the wash."