laundry mishap
Clothes cleaning catastrophe
A laundry mishap is any accident or mistake that occurs while washing clothes—a red sock turning whites pink, a shrunken sweater, a tissue left in a pocket that shreds across an entire load.
The phrase often appears in domestic comedy: The cashmere incident of 2019 was just a laundry mishap, I swear.
- stainLasting surface discoloration
- color bleedPigment spreading beyond edges
- shrinkDecrease in size
- bleachChemical stain and germ killer
- pinkPale red hue
dye · run · fade · sock · lost · dryer · washer · overflow · suds · flood · ruined · shrunken · discolored · tangled · wrinkled · tissue · lint · fabric softener
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