dish-water

Alternately, the municiple water services which are providing lawn-water, dish-water, bath-water, and clothes-washing-water at the CORRECT price are spending too much on bringing that product up to an excessively high quality standard -- drinkable.

Economics of Water, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

That a sink should smell was to him part of the natural order, just as it was a part of the natural order that the soap should be grimy with dish-water and hard to lather.

THE APOSTATE 2010

So spoke Matt, coming out of the cabin, his sleeves rolled up, a pan of dirty dish-water in his hands, arrested in the act of emptying the pan by the sight of Weedon Scott patting White Fang.

The Love-Master 2010

That a sink should smell was to him part of the natural order, just as it was a part of the natural order that the soap should be grimy with dish-water and hard to lather.

THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London 2010

Diarist George Templeton Strong described Mansfield as a "small litterateur who devoted himself to the concoction of dish-water little novels."

Prominence and Patricide Edward J. Renehan Jr. 2010

They think a big stew that tastes like dish-water is a dinner, and if they do have anything I like they keep on having the same thing every day till I throw it in the sink.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Mr. Monday so finely called “a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more hair on their skinny old chests.”

Babbit 2004

"What was he like anyway?" asked his sister as she dipped soap flakes into the dish-water with a liberal hand.

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

Between the actual bleedings there is a discharge resembling dish-water.

The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

When a pail of dish-water is brought out to them, the strongest drinks first, and the others stand by and lick their lips, although they know that he will take the best part; then they all take their turn.

Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke