clothesline vs dirty washing

clothesline

noun
  • A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry. 

  • A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist. 

  • The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline. 

verb
  • To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline. 

dirty washing

noun
  • synonym of dirty laundry 

How often have the words clothesline and dirty washing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )