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Table linen should never dry on the line, but be brought in while still damp, very carefully folded, and ironed bone-dry, with abundant "elbowgrease."
The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907
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“use elbowgrease on it” and I had no idea what that meant.
Logic 101: Gravity, radio, and library books « knitnut.net 2008
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"Nothing to it ... should a had him in the first place ... can't beat the old elbowgrease.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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