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PILAT.TO WASH ONE’S HANDS (OF SMB)
EXPLANATION:
· To say or show that one no longer wants to be responsible for or involved in an action.
· “ Disown the responsibility for, refuse to have any further connection with (originally an allusion to Pilate’s washing his hands at the trial of Jesus to show that he was innocent of Jesus’ blood).
#1 “When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but that a riot might break out, he took water, and washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, I am not responsible for the death of this man! This is your doing! (Mt. 27:24).
#2 MINISTERS WASH THEIR HANDS OF THE NHS (National Health Service)
POLITICIANS WASH HANDS OF ROVER
BRITAIN WASHES HANDS OF SHANKS
#3 “With its back to the wall, the leadership of Germany’s main opposition party yesterday broke
openly with the man who guided them for more than two decades, the former chancellor Helmut Kohl.”
(The Guardian).
#4 “Police Wash Hands of Farm Squatters”
“Zimbabwe’s police chief said yesterday that he would not order action against thousands of black squatters who have illegally invaded white-owned farms on the grounds that it was a “political issue”.
(The Guardian).
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