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soil one's hands

See: DIRTY ONE'S HANDS.

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[dirty one's hands] or [soil one's hands] {v. phr.} To lower or hurt one's character or good name; do a bad or shameful thing. * /The teacher warned the children […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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