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davey b | 17:44 Mon 07th Jul 2008 | Phrases & Sayings
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What does the old lancashire saying "Taking in washing" mean?
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Taking other peoples dirty clothes to wash or clean them.
Doing other peoples dirty laundry.
As a means of making money, of course. Mark Twain wrote of poor people 'making a precarious living by taking in each other's washing'... work that one out...
Also refers to clothing which has become stuck in the crack!!
It meant that they were hard up. Broke. Skint. It was a derogatory desciption of people down on their luck

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