Idiom: Get your hands dirty
Idiom Definitions for 'Get your hands dirty'
If you get your hands dirty, you become involved in something where the realities might compromise your principles.
It can also mean that a person is not just stuck in an ivory tower dictating strategy, but is prepared to put in the effort and hard work to make the details actually happen.
- Category: Body and bodily functions
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Idioms similar to 'Get your hands dirty'
- Get your hands dirty
- Dirty dog
- Down and dirty
- In like a dirty shirt
- Off like a dirty shirt
- Do their dirty work
- Air your dirty laundry in public
- Don't wash your dirty laundry in public
- Hands down
- Hold your hands up
- Play into someone's hands
- Clean hands
- Wash your hands of something
- My hands are full
- My hands are tied
- Safe pair of hands
- Idle hands are the devil's handiwork
- Many hands make light work
- Devil finds work for idle hands
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