The rest is taken up by clothes hanging out to dry in the blistering heat.

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What could be more straightforward than a view of sheets hanging out to dry in the sun?

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Cherie Blair and John Prescott publicly washing, spinning and hanging out to dry the dirty linen of the Brown-Blair relationship.

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Whenever there is a lull in Suva's heavy tropical rains, every parked vehicle is festooned with clothes hanging out to dry.

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Le Tour Traveller's Rest, housed in a former towel factory, is Shanghai's best youth hostel and leaves most of the city's budget accommodation hanging out to dry.

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Nor does he necessarily want to draw attention to the fact that an American icon, Chrysler, is now in the hands of a struggling Italian company, Fiat SpA, or as Romney and others might contend, that he gave preferential treatment to his friends at the United Auto Workers union, while hanging bondholders out to dry.

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One day, while hanging wash out to dry, he spies lavender bushes right next to the clothesline.

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Mr Reid senior saw red, believing that Mr Dewar was hanging his son out to dry.

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