All 3 Uses of
whitewash
in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- All those spindles reeling and wheeling and shuttles jumping around and bobbins wringing the air with string, whitewashed walls and steel-gray machines and girls in flowered skirts skipping back and forth, and the whole thing webbed with flowing white lines stringing the factory together-it all stuck with me and every once in a while something on the ward calls it to mind.†
Chpt 4 *
- Harding began flirting with all the student nurses, and Billy Bibbit completely quit writing what he used to call his "observations" in the log book, and when the window in front of her desk got replaced again, with a big X across it in whitewash to make sure McMurphy didn't have any excuse for not knowing it was there, Scanlon did it in by accidentally bouncing our basketball through it before the whitewashed X was even dry.†
Chpt 24
- Harding began flirting with all the student nurses, and Billy Bibbit completely quit writing what he used to call his "observations" in the log book, and when the window in front of her desk got replaced again, with a big X across it in whitewash to make sure McMurphy didn't have any excuse for not knowing it was there, Scanlon did it in by accidentally bouncing our basketball through it before the whitewashed X was even dry.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
-
(1)
(whitewash as in: whitewash the fence) a liquid used to paint something in a see-through white color; or the act of painting something with such a liquid
-
(2)
(whitewash as in: investigative whitewash) cover up, hide, or minimize (a wrong or error)
-
(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Whitewash, especially in the past, can also refer to painting something white.