wash one’s hands of something

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Before you wash your hands of the affair, find out if the lender or adviser is tied or independent.

That is the real failure of the Government's approach. They can not wash their hands of social problems and the incidence of crime.

They told their father that if he did marry her they would wash their hands of them.

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