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Difference between Laundry list and Shopping list

laundry listsaid of a large number of usually unpleasant things:

  • General Motors is charged by its critics with primary responsibility for a laundry list of social ills, including air pollution.

shopping listsaid of a long list of items to be considered, acted upon, etc.:

  • Ground-to-air missiles were on the “shopping list” of defense equipment taken to Moscow.