dishrag

His ma brought him a dishrag he used to wash his hands.

Valerie reaches for a dangling dishrag to staunch the blood still flowing from her neck, but the dishrag is hanging from a knife block she carelessly tossed it on while making tea.

Because Manila looks like a dishrag compared to its neighbors like Taguig, Makati, Pasig and Quezon City that have their tall gleaming condominiums and office buildings, Mayor Lim is embarking on urban renewal in his city.

Place a clean dishrag in the bottom of your stockpot (this helps prevent the jars from breaking when you heat them).

Now, I think eating injera is like chewing on a moist dishrag, but knowing that I now possess the secret to buying freshly made floppy bread any day of the week, that, unlike my benighted friends and colleagues who have spent decades in Dallas without a reliable purveyor of the stuff, I could make a fluffy bed of injera and sleep in it should I so desire, gives me an incredible sense of empowerment.

A teapot bemoans the fact that it is constantly placed on the tire; a paper lantern becomes a raging face; a dishrag mutates suddenly into a demon.

One of them is tenor Keith Ikaia-Purdy, whose coarse and effortful singing in the Tales of Hoffmann septet sounds like the vocal equivalent of wringing out a dishrag. Even worse is soprano Stefania Bonfadelli, who makes a mess of "O luce di quest'anima" with labored fioritura, strident sound, unconvincing expressivity, and superfluous arm movements one might see in a beauty pageant talent show.

"Those pieces of equipment are not easy to clean with a spray bottle and dishrag," says Matt Schiering, vice president, general manager for Sani Professional, a division of Orangeburg, N.Y.-based Nice-Pak.

Figure out a way to support yourself--and not by moving in with another girlfriend--before you dump this dishrag. Look into a vocational rehab program, or see if you can get into a job-training program.

The band's new album, Caledonia (Dishrag Records), is an understated gem.

Soon, the air was the color of a filthy dishrag. The water in the Detroit River was so bad, it was said you could bottle it and sell it as poison.

Would you tip a waitress with another dishrag? You should only not tip if your guide actually yells at you and you didn't deserve it ...

leave behind dishrag limp limbs to stretch my buoyant body

If you have MS, the odds are overwhelming that you have experienced generalized lassitude--that "wet dishrag" feeling--more times than you would like.

After six to 12 months or more in bottle, the wine starts showing a bouquet variously described as dirty dishrag, furniture polish/varnish, floor polish or Linden blossom, often with some bitterness and a metallic aftertaste, and always with suppression of varietal character.