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Phrase(s): have someone’s blood on one’s hands
1. Lit. to have the blood of some other person on one’s hands. • He fell and got a terrible cut and now I have his blood on my hands as well as my shirt. 2. Fig. to be responsible for someone’s death; to be guilty of causing someone’s death. • The teenager’s blood was on the policeman’s hands. • The king’s blood was on the hands of the murderer who killed him.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs