soil (one's) hands

To partake in especially underhanded, illicit, or illegal work or activities. The public can't be allowed to think that I, a senate hopeful, would ever soil my hands with a tax-evasion scheme such as that.

get one's hands dirty and dirty one's hands; soil one's hands

1. Fig. to get closely involved in a difficult task. You have to get your hands dirty if you expect to get the gutters cleaned out.

2. Fig. to become involved with something illegal; to do a shameful thing; to do something that is beneath one. The mayor would never get his hands dirty by giving away political favors. I will not dirty my hands by breaking the law.

词组	soil (one's) hands
释义	soil (one's) hands soil (one's) hands To partake in especially underhanded, illicit, or illegal work or activities. The public can't be allowed to think that I, a senate hopeful, would ever soil my hands with a tax-evasion scheme such as that. See also: hand, soil Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. get one's hands dirty and dirty one's hands; soil one's hands 1. Fig. to get closely involved in a difficult task. You have to get your hands dirty if you expect to get the gutters cleaned out. 2. Fig. to become involved with something illegal; to do a shameful thing; to do something that is beneath one. The mayor would never get his hands dirty by giving away political favors. I will not dirty my hands by breaking the law. See also: and, dirty, get, hand, soil McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: dirty (one's) hands dirty one's hands get hands dirty and dirty hands; soil hands sully sully (one's) hands sully your hands stolen fruit is (the) sweetest stolen fruit is sweet stolen fruit is sweetest stolen pleasures are (the) sweetest
随便看	a taste of (one's) own medicine a taste of own medicine at a stretch at a tender age at a/the ripe old age at a time at a venture at a word at bat at bay at beck and call at/behind the wheel at best at best/worst at bottom atcha at close quarters at close range at cross purposes at cross-purposes at daggers drawn at death's door at death's doorstep at door at doorstep