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lather, rinse, repeat

phrase

Etymology

From the directions on a bottle of shampoo.

Definitions

  1. Indicating that an action or process was repeated, or needs to be repeated.

    • Use the step backward icon again and experiment with the other three icons, drawing overlapping shapes. Lather, rinse, repeat.
    • Then, burned-out after a spring and summer of machining, testing, tweaking, lather, rinse, repeat, I took a driving vacation with my husband […]
    • Lather, rinse, repeat until you get tired of watching your money go down the drain.

  2. Indicating that an action or process happens often and is futile.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lather, rinse, repeat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA