Sentence examples of "умываем" in Russian
Ставя на одну доску убийцу и его жертву, мы тем самым умываем руки.
By equating the murderer and the victim, we wash our hands.
«В сложившейся ситуации экологи не умывают руки, просто возможности для продолжения конструктивной работы с властями иссякли», - отметил, директор российского отделения «Всемирного фона дикой природы» Игорь Честин в ходе состоявшегося в минувшую пятницу осмотра строящихся олимпийских объектов.
"Ecologists aren't washing their hands of the issue, but the opportunity to work in constructive cooperation with the authorities has vanished," Igor Chestin, head of the Russian branch of WWF, said during a tour Friday of Olympic construction sites.
Но, если что-нибудь пойдет не так, мы умываем руки.
But if anything goes wrong we'll plead total ignorance.
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