In Film and Television, Car Washing is a simple backdrop for a song and dance montage. In contrast, the 1981 film The Karate Kid used Car Cleaning as a secret setup for a deeper lesson with the iconic line, “Wax On, Wax Off.”
My ASL Dictionary has a cartoon of The Karate Kid character Daniel, played by Ralph Macchio, illustrating another ASL hand sign for WASH, specifically for washing cars and walls.
Palm out, the A hand rotates in a circle twice like the circular strokes of washing or waxing a car.
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