An iron and blue shirt cuff stick out of a mound of soil beside a small trowel on bright green grass.

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Phyllis Diller

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A deadpan joke about dodging housework. Instead of pressing the clothes, the speaker claims to have buried a lot of ironing outdoors, treating a chore pile like something to be hidden underground, evidence disposed of rather than dealt with.

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