| 单词 | to keep the hands clean |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep the hands clean g. Phrases (figurative): clean bill of health: see bill of health n. at bill n.3 Compounds 1; to have clean hands, to keep the hands clean: to be innocent of wrongdoing; to keep a clean tongue: to abstain from offensive or foul talk; to make a clean breast: see Phrases; to show a clean pair of heels: see show v. Phrases 1a; to make a clean job (of it): to do (something) thoroughly (colloquial); to come clean (originally U.S.): to confess, to make a clean breast of it (colloquial). ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > innocence > be innocent [verb (intransitive)] > be innocent of wrongdoing to keep the hands clean1600 to have clean hands1876 society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > modesty or decency > be modest [verb (intransitive)] > abstain from foul talk to keep a clean tongue1830 the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > certificate or declaration of patent1609 clean bill of health1854 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > do thoroughly to make a clean job (of it)1892 society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > reveal one's true character > confess subscribea1616 confess to1771 own1772 admit1830 to make a clean breast of1838 fess1840 to own up1844 to spit it out1855 to make a clean breast of it1878 cough1901 to come clean1919 to spill one's guts (out)1927 tell papa1929 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 388 From which I would that our countrymen..would keepe their hands cleane. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 108 Harry Smith had best show a clean pair of heels for it. 1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Oct. 521 Let them keep a clean tongue on the subject of republicanism. 1854 G. B. Richardson Univ. Code v. 963 Have you a clean bill of health? 1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People x. §2. 766 It was true that the hands of the Governor-General were clean. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. xii. 256 Your husband..will show them a clean pair of heels off the Nore. 1884 T. H. Gore in Law Times 8 Nov. 29/1 He did not go into court with clean hands. 1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi II. 50 That may be Mithras's notion of making a clean job of it, but it ain't mine! 1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. iii. 203 And looked with the deepest respect at the man who had the reputation for making what they called a ‘clean job’. 1919 C. H. Darling Jargon Bk. 8 Come clean, to confess everything. 1925 P. G. Wodehouse Sam the Sudden xiii. 95 You'd best come clean, Soapy, and have a showdown. 1928 Daily Express 10 Oct. 6 Spill the beans. Come clean on the whole game. 1958 Listener 2 Oct. 514/1 Why not come clean and call ‘graduated unemployment compensation’ the national dividend? 1959 J. Cary Captive & Free 28 I was wasting my time, because you kept dodging. You never come clean. < as lemmas |
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