wash one's hands

1. 1.

   to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame

   “I wash my hands of this”

   Broaderabsolve

Questions about wash one's hands

What does wash one's hands mean?

wash one's hands means "to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame".

Is wash one's hands a common word?

wash one's hands is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.