wash one's hands

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˌwɒʃ wʌnz ˈhæn(d)z/|/ˌwɒʃ wʌnz ˈhæn(d)z‿əv/    美 /ˌwɔʃ wʌnz ˈhæn(d)z/|/ˌwɔʃ wʌnz ˈhæn(d)z‿əv/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wash, one's, hands.
    — Be sure to wash your hands before preparing food.
  2. To go to the toilet. euphemistic
  3. To absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with. figuratively
    — Sharp[er]. […] Mony is but Dirt, Sir Joſeph—Mere Dirt. / Sir Jo[seph Wittoll]. But I profeſs, it is a Dirt I have vvaſhed my Hands of at preſent; I have laid it all out upon my Back.

词形变化

washes one's hands present,singular,third-person washing one's hands participle,present washed one's hands participle,past washed one's hands past

词源

The figurative sense comes from the account in Matthew 27:24 of the Bible in which Pontius Pilate, unwilling to condemn Jesus who has committed no crime but whose crucifixion the crowd has called for, symbolically washes his hands in public and says (according to the King James Version; spelling modernized): “I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.”
Another literal and figurative usage of the expression can be traced to Deuteronomy 21:6 where the elders of Israel are commanded to "wash their hands" as part of a ceremonial absolution ritual initiated upon the discovery of a corpse outside the jurisdiction of any city.
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