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What type of figurative language is used in this excerpt from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"?
"but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his
support."
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Idiom

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washing your hands of something is figurative language. If you're washing your hands of something, you intentionally stop being involved in it

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