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

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Vedran-Croatian, Serbian
Emmanouel-Biblical Greek
Anaxagoras-Ancient Greek
EnoshEE-nahsh (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Batsheva-Hebrew
Chang-Chinese