Whitewash is commonly used to mean a cover-up or to disguise some event by enacting another event which looks "sweet". Nixon attempted to whitewash the Watergate affair using several different ruses.

In non-American circles, I think this use of whitewash would certainly be more common than the sports-related use, although, of course, we do understand that one as well ...

So go ape, the lot of you!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...