Mexican car wash
English
Noun
Mexican car wash (plural Mexican car washes)
- (US, slang, humorous) The "washing" of a motor vehicle by a rainstorm.
- 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
- […] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music.
"My car's gonna get a Mexican car wash," said Buddy.
- […] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music.
- 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes