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Wash your hands

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Phraseologism: Wash your hands.

Meaning: To withdraw from something, to relieve oneself of responsibility for something.

Origin: From the Bible. According to the Gospels, these words were spoken by the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who tried to save Jesus from execution, not seeing any particular guilt behind him. But since the crowd demanded his death and might otherwise rebel, he was forced to leave the decision on the fate of Jesus at the mercy of his enemies. The Gospel of Matthew (27:24) tells about it this way: "Pilate, seeing that nothing helps, but confusion increases, took water and washed his hands before the people, and said: I am innocent of the blood of this Just One, you see." At that time, washing hands was a ritual that meant a person’s non-participation in any unseemly deed or his refusal to participate in it. So, in the case of finding a dead body, it was prescribed to perform the ritual of washing hands over the victim and thereby show that among those present there was no culprit of this death.

Random phraseology:

Music plays, the standard jumps.

Meaning:

About a noisy, crowded and cheerful holiday (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

From the comedy The Inspector General (1836) by N. V. Gogol (1809-1852). The words of the postmaster, who tells about the letter he read (act. 1, yavl. 2): "Recently, a lieutenant wrote to a friend and described the ball in the most playful ... very, very good. "My life, dear friend, is flowing, he says, in the empyrean: there are many young ladies, music plays, the standard jumps "... described with great, with great feeling." "Standard" - the banner of the cavalry regiment. Sometimes the officer with whom it was also called so. A.P. Chekhov (story "Magicians"): "On the solemn opening day there was a prayer service, lunch, toasts, thanks, telegrams, champagne ... Music plays, the standard jumps."

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