Out of social need, people often share their lives with others through conversation. About interesting anecdotes, past experiences, or just curious situations that occur in everyday life, topics ranging from the simplest to the deepest are part of the topics one chooses to share when sitting with friends in a bar or at lunch with co-workers at the break of the day. However, often the need to externalify the things that affect our particular life can affect what had to be a simple colloquial conversation with someone who didn’t need to know about the details of your marital discussion, shortly before you left home for work. It is then that the use of saying or saying “Dirty laundry is washed at home” functions as a call for attention for these people.
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Read more: What does it mean shrimp that falls asleep is carried by the current?” Dirty laundry is a metaphor that refers to people’s “personal problems,” while the second part “washes at home,” then represents “they are resolved privately,” that is, individually, without mesting third parties, or making problems public in the presence of strangers.” Dirty laundry is washed at home” is a phrase attributed to Napoleon, French emperor, who on his return from Elba Island after his first short exile, addressed the Assembly of France in 1851 and stated:
What is a throne? A piece of shiny wood covered with velvet. I am the state and only I represent the people. Even if I had made a mistake, you shouldn’t have reproached me in public, because dirty laundry is washed at home. France needs me more than I need France.”
The saying remained unchanged over time. Being one of their most common uses in couples’ relationships, where sometimes a cry for help to seek advice from a third party, they become complaints that the people who count them only release them without seeking any solution.
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