wash a blackamoor white (English, verb)
expansion: wash a blackamoor white (third-person singular simple present washes a blackamoor white, present participle washing a blackamoor white, simple past and past participle washed a blackamoor white)
Senses:
glosses: To labour in vain, especially so as to present something as better than it really is; to whitewash.
tags: dated
idiomatic
offensive
Forms:
form: washes a blackamoor white
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: washing a blackamoor white
tags: participle
present
form: washed a blackamoor white
tags: participle
past
form: washed a blackamoor white
tags: past
form: wash the blackamoor white
tags: alternative
form: wash blackamoors white
tags: alternative