"WASH YOUR HANDS OF SOMETHING"
If you wash your hands of something that you were involved in, you decide to stop being involved in it after losing your interest or belief in it.
Example: She washed her hands of the whole project after she found out that people had been stealing donated money.
Lavarse las manos.
Example sentences:
- Jim washed his hands of politics long ago after realising how corrupt most politicians were / Jim se lavó las manos hace mucho después de darse cuenta de lo corruptos que eran la mayoría de los políticos.
- Many sponsors washed their hands of the sport of cycling because of drug use among the cyclists / Muchos patrocinadores se lavaron las manos del deporte de ciclistas debido al uso de drogas entre los ciclistas.
Additional examples:
- I washed my hands of Tom. I wanted no more to do with him.
- He washed his hands of the matter.
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