do the dishes

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do the dishes

to wash the dishes; to wash and dry the dishes, knives, forks, glasses, etc., after a meal. Bill, you cannot go out and play until you've done the dishes. Why am I always the one who has to do the dishes?

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One friend of mine had her son do the dishes for a few months to earn a new bicycle. Rule 7 Outsource Everything You Can by Kelli Glass / Women's issues/gender studies community Especially if you are married, offering to do the dishes after dinner can be a great way to spend a little time with your spouse and connect after a busy day that took you in separate directions. Say Yes to Doing the Dishes by Matthias Reightman / Family and marriage community The second thing I do when I want to get a household chore done at high speed (because I''m a distance runner and love running), I actually get into my running clothes, shoes, shorts, and shirt, and do the dishes at high speed while dressed up like a runner. Adult ADD What Everybody Should Know... About How to Focus Attention by Pat Marcello / Self Improvement community			do homework Do I have to spell it out? Do I make myself clear? do justice to do level best do me a favour Do me a favour! do more harm than good Do not wash your dirty linen in public do nut do one better do oneself proud do over do own thing do part do proud do share Do sit down do some fine coin do somehow by do somehow for do stuff do the business do the dirty on do the dirty work do the dishes do the hard way do the honors do the honours do the job do the rounds do the running do the trick do the unthinkable do the world of good do time do to excess do up brown Do we have to go through all that again? do with a vengeance do without do you have the time do you mind Do you mind! Do you want to make something of it? dock from doctor Doctor Livingstone, I presume? doctor up doctor's orders dodder along			do repeatedly do research Do Right and Kill Everything do scant justice to do service do share Do sit down do some fine coin do somehow by do somehow for do someone credit do something from scratch do something hand in hand Do Something Intelligent Partner Do Something Society Entertainment do stuff do subtraction do the business Do The Damn Mission Do the Dance Do The Deed Do The Deed Do the dew Do the dew do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty on do the dirty work do the dishes Do the Freaking Math do the hard way do the honors do the honors do the honors do the honours do the job Do the needful Do the needful Do the Reverse Desk Do The Right Extraction Do the Right Print Do The Right Thing do the rounds do the running Do the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work do the thing do the thing do the thing do the trick do the unthinkable do the will of do the world of good Do They Know It's Christmas do things by halves Do Things My Way do thoroughly do till is blue in the face do till is blue in the face do till is blue in the face

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