sully your hands

sully (one's) hands

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

sully your hands

FORMAL

If someone sullies their hands by doing something, they do something unpleasant or wrong. He had no intention of sullying his hands by playing politics. He would not sully his hands in trade. Note: To sully something means to stain it.

词组	sully your hands
释义	sully your hands sully (one's) hands To partake in particularly underhanded, illicit, or illegal work or activities. The public can't be allowed to think that I, a senate hopeful, would ever sully my hands with a tax-evasion scheme such as that. See also: hand, sully Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. sully your hands FORMAL If someone sullies their hands by doing something, they do something unpleasant or wrong. He had no intention of sullying his hands by playing politics. He would not sully his hands in trade. Note: To sully something means to stain it. See also: hand, sully Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: sully sully (one's) hands dirty (one's) hands dirty one's hands get hands dirty and dirty hands; soil hands soil (one's) hands stolen fruit is (the) sweetest stolen fruit is sweet stolen fruit is sweetest stolen pleasures are (the) sweetest
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