Idiom
laundry list
Meaning
A long and often tedious list of items.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She gave me a laundry list of complaints.”
“The inspector arrived with a laundry list of problems he had found in the building.”
“The critic's review contained a laundry list of minor flaws, each one meticulously catalogued with barely concealed satisfaction.”
Examples
simple
“She gave me a laundry list of complaints.”
contextual
“The inspector arrived with a laundry list of problems he had found in the building.”
complex
“The critic's review contained a laundry list of minor flaws, each one meticulously catalogued with barely concealed satisfaction.”
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