“Looking stupidly out of the laundry” is a German saying, but where does the saying come from anyway? During World War II, there were “laundry soldiers” whose job was to drive through the lines and collect dirty laundry. Rather simple-minded men were assigned to this task, who then looked stupidly out of the mountains of laundry.
Idiom “Washing dirty laundry”
Nowadays, we associate the phrase “washing dirty laundry” with gossip, or with talking about someone behind their back. But why do we even say someone