VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Wash Your Hands of Something

Meaning:

Decline to take further responsibility; refuse to be involved with something anymore

Examples:

  • She washed her hands of the whole project after she found out that people had been stealing donated money.
  • She couldn't wait to wash her hands of the whole project.
  • My husband filed for divorce but even though he got cancer afterwards, I refused to wash my hands of him.
  • You can’t start a fight and then just wash your hands of it
  • he writer's family was forced to wash their hands of him after his writings criticized the dictator's government.
  • Jimmy washed his hands of politics long ago after realising how corrupt most politicians were.
  • Now that I'm rich, my parents wish they hadn't washed their hands of me when I refused to work for the family business.
  • I’ve decided to wash my hands of her.
  • My parents washed their hands of me when I married somebody from a different religion.
  • That job did no good to me. I washed my hands of it few months back and joined another one.
  • If our neighbor doesn't reciprocate soon, we're going to wash our hands of watching their dog on weekends.
  • He couldn’t wait to wash his hands of the project when it went into trouble.
  • I had to wash my hands of my daughter when she got on drugs and refused to stop lying and stealing from us. It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
  • What future is this country going to witness when each individual here is in the habit of washing their hands of the work they do.