The General joked, and the Colonels and the Commissary and the doctors, down to the sutlers and teamsters and the salt tars under Porter, who cursed the dishwater Mississippi, and also a man named Eads, who had built the new-fangled iron boxes officially known as gunboats.
"The Crisis, Volume 7"
Winston Churchill
We have tried them all, and have decided that they can be divided into two classes-those that taste like soup, and the dishwater brand.
"Camp and Trail"
Stewart Edward White
I am not going to blame anyone, but, my dearest lady, I assure you it is impossible to drain life's ecstasy to the dregs in lukewarm dishwater ...
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann