clean hands

He continued that the family "cannot be said to come to the court with clean hands", citing a "bombardment" of requests to enter Ms Higson's property.

And one of the fundamental rules of equity, as Sotomayor explains, is that you have to seek it with clean hands.

Boluarte had insisted she entered government "with clean hands" and that she would "leave it with clean hands", claiming her Rolex was an old item that she bought with the proceeds of working since she was 18.

Officials say it can be used only to clean hands if it’s completely unheated.

In war, there are no clean hands.