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
Ping-Chinese
Ioakeim-Judeo-Christian Legend
Kane[kein]
DamarisDAM-ə-ris (English)Biblical, Biblical Greek
Chinwendu-Western African, Igbo
Marlee-English (Modern)