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What does it mean to wash your hands? (I know it means that you went to the bathroom, I mean the phrase, figuratively, the idiom)
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What does it mean to wash your hands?
(I know it means that you went to the bathroom, I mean the phrase, figuratively, the idiom)
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For example:
John washed his hands of the matter.
in other words John, showed his unwillingness to accept responsibility or share complicity in something.
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By wash I think it means get rid of, your hands might suggest youve done something. maybe it means to gget something off your chest.
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