'So, as you rinse your soap-covered hands, the water strips off the soap, taking the dirt with it.'. SIX SECONDS WITH SOAP: Proof soap helps-but those fingers are still filthy. For this reason, she says, there's little advantage in using soap with added antibacterial properties to kill bacteria. 'You may get rid of a few more germs, but the majority would be removed by normal soap.
The meaning is simple, in the wake means something that will happen after some event fades away or or somebody moves on Example: Legions will come in my wake! -cried out the Roman officer right before being executed. or. Hurricane Katrina left widespread floods and destruction in its wake.
Phrase wake-up call is attested from 1976, originally a call one received from the hotel desk in the morning. track left by a moving ship, 1540s, perhaps from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake hole in the ice, from Old Norse vok, vaka hole in the ice, from Proto-Germanic *wakwo. The sense perhaps evolved via track made by a vessel through ice. Perhaps the English word is directly from Scandinavian. Figurative phrase in the wake of following close behind is recorded from 1806. n.2 state of wakefulness, Old English -wacu (as in nihtwacu night watch), related to watch; and partly from Old Norse vaka vigil, eve before a feast, related to vaka be awake (cf. Old High German wahta watch, vigil, Middle Dutch wachten to watch, guard; see wake (v.)).