They go through the wringer

Usage examples of mops.

Mop, licked him sensuously on the nose and began to lead him a merry chase that resulted, when she was ready, in a squirming litter of four little Mops and Mopettes.

Rose and Veronica waddled out of the kitchen with buckets slopping-full of soapy water in one hand and mops in the other.

Platoons of chambermaids in clogs and pinafores, with mops on their shoulders and buckets for shields!

He mops down broad cot-strewn floors with anti-fungal delousing solvents.

He was just preparing to leave when Thornier came back upstairs with a load of buckets, mops, and swabs.

Stopping to tidy up a bit, he carried a bucket of wash water and two mops outside.

Although Scott told Officer Evers that Laci was the one mopping when he left the house, his removal of the mops and dumping of the water suggested that Scott himself might have been cleaning up after some suspicious activity.

For that matter, the mops would have been very difficult for her to use in her condition, as they required someone to bend over and wring out excess water by hand before moving around the house.

When they conducted the preliminary search that first evening, however, the police had discovered two mops and an empty pail outside.

Then, with a brushed cotton cloth wrapped around one hand like a mitten, she mops and dabs him dry.

William mops his brow with a napkin while the servant kneels to her task.

Janey has been relieved of her extra duties and is a simple scullery maid again, overjoyed no doubt to be responsible only for mops, rags and brushes.

Even those ladies and gentlemen untroubled by conscience will, Mrs Fox is convinced, find their supply of servants drying up soon enough, and all but the wealthiest of them will then have to acquaint themselves with such exotic objects as mops and dishcloths.

In the subterranean kitchen, a bleary-eyed Janey mops at the puddles which, during the night, have trickled in through the grimy steam-vents, the scullery window and the stairwell.

Since the summer now, when he mops Shattuck Shelter floors, he hears the Clopaclopaclop he used to make with his big square tongue as Sir Osis, then, riding.