What does wish-wash mean?
Wish-wash means (archaic) Any weak, thin drink..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(archaic) Any weak, thin drink..
Between the result of the above, and the ordinary wish-wash served as coffee, the difference is too great to be expressed.
The famous bohemian cafés, the Dôme, the Coupole and the Rotonde, still remained; the hooded iron stove still warmed the regulars settled beside the round tables from the wintry streets; the waiter, with the unvarying rudeness of Paris, served the "national coffee," that grayish-brown wish-wash which passed for coffee in Paris and which, like everything labeled "national," roused the suspicion that it wasn't what it was called but only resembled the real thing.
They got 250 grams of bread and wish-wash for breakfast; in the evening, he who had worked got kasha, wish-wash, and bread.
It consisted of bread and for the first course "the usual wish-wash” (balanda), “so-called soup in which several pieces of congealed cabbage floated.”
It is a thing that fails altogether to interest; a wish-wash that only serves to pass the time.
They confined their sermons on Sunday to the decorous wish-wash in which average men treated in a harmless way subjects to which the people were indifferent.
it is a clearing away of the wish-wash which assumes that lack of national distinction is an international virtue.
What I am doing is asking the senator to explain why Labor has come up with such wish-wash on this matter.
Use wish-wash when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wish-wash means (archaic) Any weak, thin drink..
Common synonyms include folderol, trumpery, tripe, rubbish.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Between the result of the above, and the ordinary wish-wash served as coffee, the difference is too great to be expressed.
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