The funding “will work out in the formula somehow”, he said, adding later: “It will come out in the wash, and that is OK.” But “if you are going to say that Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then I do not want to meet with you guys any more because I cannot live with that.” (The Guardian.)
Does "the wash" mean "a situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages balance each other" in the passage above?
"It will come out in the wash" is an idiom. com/come+out+in+the+wash
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"It will come out in the wash" is an idiom. See the various uses here: