Like “does the Pope shit in the woods?” or “that train has sailed?”
Also, what good examples can you think of?
Cambridge lists ‘dry cleaning’ as an example, a process that involves liquid and is thus antithetical.
Ehhh…man, I dunno about that example, Cambridge. Like, wouldn’t sweeping involve cleaning something? Vacuuming?
No, but if they’re going to assert that cleaning involves liquid, they would be counterexamples to such an assertion.
They are focusing on the dry part of the term. Using a liquid during the process goes against the dry part.
“dry cleaning” is a specific term for a method of laundering clothes that DOES require a liquid, but not soaking the clothes in water.
Those things you mentioned are not counter examples, because they have nothing to do with “dry cleaning”.
That’s like if I point out that peanuts aren’t actually nuts, and you respond with “but walnuts are nuts!”
Yeah, walnuts are nuts, but that doesn’t have anything to do with peanuts and whether or not they are nuts.
