dishpan


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large pan for washing dishes

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The Fairbanks-Morse dishpan remains Jason's favorite piece.
With such snags and so many features introduced in the previous three entries left out this time, there's an unshakeable feeling while playing "The Sims 4'' that even though the Sims have evolved, something still isn't quite right about them, and it ain't just their dishpan hands.
We pull it up, watching the snout and flop it in the dishpan.
"This was supposed to have a 'butter-smooth' action, but it's rough as a cob!" (Funny how the customer didn't notice it when he handled the gun in the shop.) Or, "The manufacturer guarantees MOA accuracy, but this thing can't keep all its shots in a dishpan!" (Amazing how often that turns out to be the customer's fault, and not the gun).
[A] wooden washtub, a plastic dishpan, a swimming platform on pontoons, a large fishing net, a door taken off its hinges, or Pinocchio (when inside the whale) are not "vessels," even if they are "artificial contrivance[s]" capable of floating, moving under tow, and incidentally carrying even a fair-sized item or two when they do so.
Detergent was put in the dishpan containing moderate amount of warm water, the tubes were rinsed in tap water and then were put in the detergent solution for at least one hour.
Generally, the snow was just deep enough to slide down the hill a few times in an aluminum dishpan (I don't think I knew a kid with an actual sled).
To state the obvious, a wooden washtub, a plastic dishpan, a swimming platform on pontoons, a large fishing net, a door taken off its hinges, or Pinocchio (when inside the whale) are not "vessels," even if they are "artificial contrivances[s]" capable of floating, moving under tow, and incidentally carrying even a fair-sized item or two when they do so.
http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ dishpan.html; and Krugman, Paul R.
(32) Rough "dishpan hands" suggested not just carelessness in terms of appearance but lower-class social status as defined by a life of tedious housework.
Peavy, who asked her School Board to provide her with a large dishpan for heating water on the wood stove.
It is glycerin and water sold in a plastic bottle; it is traditionally stored under the sink, so the process of using the soap includes bending down, opening the cabinet, grabbing the bottle, squirting the soap into the sink or dishpan, and then putting the bottle back in the cabinet.
They make $4 a day and before they leave spend it at the co-op store, mostly for clothes--but we saw one man carrying a large dishpan on his shoulder.
Pat suggested having the students place their wrapped and tied fabric into a plastic dishpan or onto an aluminum plate before applying the dye with squeeze bottles.