mossa kezeit

Etymology
+ +, literally: “to wash one's hands”.

Verb

 * 1)  to wash one's hands of to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for, to refuse to have any further involvement with; the matter in question can be expressed with or, among others

Usage notes
In the literal sense of washing one's hands, or  is used. (Body pairs and the corresponding items of clothing are normally used in the singular in Hungarian, so the plural is exceptional in this idiom.)

Conjugation

 * For the verb, see (its definite-conjugation forms are used here).
 * The inflected noun is changed in accordance with the subject:, , , , . The definite article  is optional, as well as the accusative ending  (although it is not usually omitted in the plural).