- have clean hands
- keep (your) hands clean - to avoid becoming involved in any activities which are bad or illegal.
The country's leaders must be seen to have clean hands.
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have clean hands — INFORMAL ► to have never been involved in a dishonest or illegal activity: »An audit proved that neither company had clean hands when it came to reporting profits. Main Entry: ↑clean … Financial and business terms
have clean hands — To have no connection with a crime or immoral act • • • Main Entry: ↑clean * * * be uninvolved and blameless with regard to an immoral act no one involved in the conflict has clean hands … Useful english dictionary
clean hands doctrine — n: a doctrine that originated in equity and that bars a plaintiff from seeking judicial relief regarding a matter in which he or she is not free of guilt and does not have clean hands Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996.… … Law dictionary
Clean hands — Hand Hand (h[a^]nd), n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand, OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[ o]nd, Goth. handus, and perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.] 1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
clean — In the context of general equities, block trade that matches buy or sell orders/interests, sparing the block trader any inventory risk (no net position and hence none available for additional customers). natural. Antithesis of open. Bloomberg… … Financial and business terms
clean — 1. free from unpleasantness, danger, or illegality. The opposite in many uses of dirty. It may denote that a sexual partner has no venereal disease, that the enemy is not in a location, that someone is not carrying drugs or a handgun, etc … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
clean — clean1 W2 [kli:n] adj comparative cleaner superlative cleanest ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(not dirty)¦ 2¦(people/animals)¦ 3¦(environment)¦ 4¦(fair or legal)¦ 5¦(not offensive)¦ 6 come clean 7 make a clean breast of it … Dictionary of contemporary English
Hands off — Hand Hand (h[a^]nd), n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand, OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[ o]nd, Goth. handus, and perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.] 1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
have — [ weak əv, həv, strong hæv ] (3rd person singular has [ weak əz, həz, strong hæz ] ; past tense and past participle had [ weak əd, həd, strong hæd ] ) verb *** Have can be used in the following ways: as an auxiliary verb in perfect tenses of… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Hands Clean — Single infobox Name = Hands Clean Artist = Alanis Morissette from Album = Under Rug Swept Released = February 4, 2002 Format = CD single Recorded = Genre = Pop Rock Length = 4:31 Label = Maverick Writer = Alanis Morissette Producer = Alanis… … Wikipedia
