wash one's hands
• go to the toilet (used euphemistically).
wash one's hands of
• disclaim responsibility for.
• "the social services washed their hands of his daughter"
Similar:
disown,
disclaim,
renounce,
reject,
abjure,
forswear,
disavow,
have nothing to do with,
have done with,
be finished/through with,
give up on,
turn one's back on,
cast aside,
end relations with,
abandon,
disaffirm,
