"STAHLKE, HERBERT F" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
   
    Clever, but note that we can’t say “The Giants washed the Patriots all up” with anything but a literal meaning. 
   
  Grandmother might say, "Go wash up for dinner".
   
  The idiom has to be passive, as is the idiom below. 
   
  Herb

  .brad.05feb08.

   
  Brad Johnston [log in to unmask] wrote: 
         

    They are not my sentences, by the way, so don't blame me for "After I _______ (do) the washing-up". 

     

    That's an expression a New York Giant might use today, since the Patriots are now all washed up. 

     





       
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