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White goods are washing machines, dish washers, fridges…, while brown goods are the audio/video stuff (TVs, stereo). Kind of old fashion but based on the typic
by Timothee 16y ago
White goods are washing machines, dish washers, fridges…, while brown goods are the audio/video stuff (TVs, stereo).
Kind of old fashion but based on the typical color of these items (mostly from a couple of decades or more ago: washing machines and fridges are in many colors and A/V stuff is almost always black and/or silver)
According to Wikipedia, it seems to be mostly a UK idiom.
- merijnv 16y agoThis idiom appears exactly the same in Dutch (and thus possibly other languages too?)
- cgrand-net 16y agoIn French too (produits blancs/bruns).
- moozeek 16y agoGerman as well :) (Weisse Ware / braune Ware)
- gtufano 16y agoItalian too. We could probably say that this is an European thing. ;)
- kawera 16y agoPortuguese too: branco/marrom
- WildUtah 16y agoLínea blanca in Spanish
- ra 16y agoBrowngoods refers to Bakelite. Once, all radios / radiograms were made of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite