Are you familiar with the term " wash up" discussion?

[limetrees32]

Just that really
Heard it for the first time yesterday.

Agreed.

I have now been retired for nearly 8 years and was familiar with it for quite a while before then.

Never heard it as a workplace team so I've learnt something new. We tend to say debrief/follow up meeting.

Wash up to me is washing the dishes and cutlery in the sink, though I think in the North this is "doing the pots". In the US they say "washing the dishes" whilst "wash up" means washing your hands/face and perhaps combing your hair which I'd call "having a wash and brush up"!

It is from looking at what washed up on the beach now that the tide has gone out. So what is yet to still go through or get done afterwards.

Yes use it all the time at work.

Only wash up I know is it means wash the dishes

yes. discussion after somethings finished.

much like washing dishes after the meal has finished presumably.

It’s pretty common corp speak ime. I’ve heard it used in multiple workplaces. It means a review at the end of a project.

Id never come across it before.
To me it seems a strange term to describe a conversation about a loved one with hospital staff.
Perhaps distancing and making something painful formal.

I think if you use the term all the time at work, or are very familiar with it, it wouldn’t feel like you were saying something formal, detached or unloving. It’d be just like saying “a followup meeting” or “working out what to do next”.

Good point @TallagallaPenguin .
I think you might be right.

I’m nhs and our execs have a “weekly wash up” to raise anything/watch decisions/flag concerns. I wouldn’t use it for patients and their families though!

Project debrief or during a restructure you can have wash up discussions

I know it as a parliamentary term.

"The wash-up period refers to the last few days of a Parliament before dissolution. Any unfinished business is lost at dissolution and the Government may need the co-operation of the Opposition in passing legislation that is still in progress.
In the past some Bills have been lost completely, while others have progressed quickly but in a much-shortened form. The introduction of Fixed-term Parliaments, where General Election dates are more predictable, was expected to make this less likely."

My husband muttered something about waterfalls the other day. It was an immediate signal to go back to what I was reading and ignore the interruption. I hate any pretentious office speak

Wrap up?

So glad I'm retired and will never have to endure such corporate bullspeak again.

My first thought was wash up ‘crack’ 🤣
but to be fair I do work in the drug and alcohol sector

No

I think it's an expression which dates back a long way , not an example of modern corporate speak

This is the most pointless thread - OP doesn’t even tell us what the phrase is supposed to mean. A discussion about washing in hospital?

Mowing the lawn is a new one , may try and use it and see how quickly it gets accepted into everyday parlance. I’m off to google what it means.

Yep.

Used where I work. Multinational, large corporate.

@desperatemum1234

limetrees32 · Yesterday 08:13
it was used by a relative when talking about a conversation with hospital staff about their partner.
Seems so out of place
does the above quote help?
I wasn't posting to explain what a " wash up discussion" was .
I was posting to a) find out if it was a common expression and in what context.
and
b) to discover what people thought it meant.