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Sponge off   /spəndʒ ɔf/   Listen
Sponge off

verb
1.
Clean with a sponge, by rubbing.  Synonym: sponge down.






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"Sponge off" Quotes from Famous Books



... officer, says frankly, "Nothing." Three years' continuous struggle to keep the mess going in whiskey and soda and the officers' kit down to two hundred and fifty pounds per officer has made an old man of him, once so full of bright quips and conundrums. The moment HINDENBURG chucks up the sponge off goes William to Chelsea Hospital, there to spend the autumn of his days pitching the yarn and displaying his honourable scars gained in many a bloody battle in ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 6, 1917 • Various

... pumice stone over it with the finger, and then, if it is mounted, remove it from the card by placing it in warm water and allowing it to soak for an hour or two, or over night if necessary. After it is thus freed from the card lay it face down on a piece of glass, and sponge off all the starch from the back. Cut a piece of blotting paper the size of the picture and lay it on a glass, wetting it with water applied with a sponge; then lay the photograph, still wet, on the blotting paper, and, with a sponge, remove all the surplus ...
— Crayon Portraiture • Jerome A. Barhydt



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