Question

What does it mean to wash your hands?

(I know it means that you went to the bathroom, I mean the phrase, figuratively, the idiom)

Answer 1

For example:

John washed his hands of the matter.

in other words John, showed his unwillingness to accept responsibility or share complicity in something.

hope this helps :)

Answer 2

By wash I think it means get rid of, your hands might suggest youve done something. maybe it means to gget something off your chest.