倒是把自己择得一干二净
“You wiped yourself clean.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
好你个宋秀之
“Good, Song Xiuzhi.”
倒是 把 自己 择得一干二净
“You wiped yourself clean.”
要不是为了让你坐上那门主之位
“If not for letting you become the Lord,”
“You hypocrite, you pushed me to do the dirty work and now act like you are innocent!”
In Chinese interpersonal ethics, letting partners take the fall while maintaining personal purity is viewed as a severe breach of loyalty (义气).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to wash one's hands completely of something; to absolve oneself entirely of blame
A vivid idiomatic construction commonly used when criticizing someone who deliberately dodges accountability.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Now you want to wash your hands of it”
“He not only washed his hands of it completely,”
“He's trying to wash his hands of this.”