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user-inactivated  ·  3267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What might the future actually look like if Donald Trump was elected?

Eh.... sort of. He came in and tried to make a bunch of very right-leaning people happy. He ended up ditching them and got some decent environmental work done. More of a wash than anything. Granted I did not live there and only know what friends and family tell me.





user-inactivated  ·  3267 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    More of a wash than anything.

What does it mean?

user-inactivated  ·  3266 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I forgot, you are not American, sorry. A wash is sort of like a draw. If you add the good and the bad you end up with a zero. Not good, not bad.

user-inactivated  ·  3266 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So, "more of a wash than anything" means that it barely had any effect, correct?

user-inactivated  ·  3265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    So, "more of a wash than anything" means that it barely had any effect, correct?

Think of the expression as more of he did some good things, some not-so-good things and in the end did not screw anything up to the point of disaster level.

user-inactivated  ·  3265 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I see. Thank you for the explanation.