Hand - Wash one's hands

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Hand - Wash one's hands

Postby dreams » Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:31 pm

Meaning: To absolve oneself of responsibility

Matthew 27:24
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

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Postby dreams » Sat Feb 21, 2004 7:47 pm

"Some of you with Pilate wash your hands"
Shakespeare, Richard II (4:2)

"He had entirely washed his hands of the difficulty"
Dickens, Bleak House 1853


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