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Verbit
1.idiomaattinen
Fraasit
2.idiomaattinen

Määritelmät

Verbit

  1. (idiomatic) To absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with.

Esimerkit

  • It was no affair of his; he had long ago washed his hands of the whole matter.
  • Although Norine had pretended to wash her hands of all responsibility for Branch's little charge, she was by no means so inhuman as she appeared.
  • [A]fter Congress had refused to appropriate money to continue them, President Roosevelt washed his hands of the two ventures.
  • Janet Dench, the executive director of the Canadian Council for refugees, said that both countries are “washing their hands” of the problem.

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