dirty hands

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dirty your hands

to become involved in bad activities that might spoil other people's opinions of you (usually negative) The royal family don't usually dirty their hands with politics.

See also: dirty, hand

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A man, in leather apron and very dirty hands, appeared at the door. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context Dirty hands were plunged into the food pots and the captured portions devoured so greedily that one might have thought the entire community had been upon the point of starvation. Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context A detestable atmosphere to breathe; a disorderly audience to address; insolent opposition to conciliate; imbecile inquiries to answer; brutish interruptions to endure; greedy petitioners to pacify; and dirty hands to shake: these are the stages by which the aspiring English gentleman is compelled to travel on the journey which leads him from the modest obscurity of private life to the glorious publicity of the House of Commons. Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context			dinged out dink dink off dinner Dinner is served dip dip in dip into dip into savings dip to diplomacy dire direct direct against direct at direct attention to direct to direction dirt dirt cheap dirt-poor dirty dirty crack dirty deal dirty dog dirty hands dirty laundry dirty look dirty old man dirty up dirty word dirty work dis disabuse of disagree disagree with disappear disappear from disappear into thin air disappear off the face of the earth disappoint with disappointed disappointed at disapprove of disaster disaster of epic proportions disbar from discern discern between and discern from discharge			Dirty But Clean Dirty Chest of Simon dirty crack Dirty data dirty deal Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Australian album) Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Australian album) Dirty Disc Error dirty dog dirty dog Dirty Dozen Dirty Dozen Brass Band Dirty Dozen Garden Club Dirty Fat Dirty float Dirty Floating Dirty Floats Dirty Genitals Dirty Ghetto Kids Dirty Girl Dirty Girl for Life Dirty Girl Moisture Bar Dirty Girl Social Club Dirty Girls and the Boy Toys Dirty Great Capacitor dirty hands Dirty Harry Dirty Horn Players Association dirty ice Dirty Jew dirty joke Dirty Karma Clothing dirty laundry dirty laundry dirty linen Dirty Liquid Radioactive Waste System Dirty Little Girl Dirty Little Helper Update File Dirty Little Minx Dirty Little Secrets dirty look dirty mare syndrome Dirty Mind Syndrome Dirty Mo Posse dirty money Dirty Money Syndicate Dirty nuke Dirty nuke Dirty nuke Dirty Old Bastard dirty old man dirty old man dirty old man Dirty Old Man's Club dirty old men

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