with clean hands

with clean hands

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù y ǐ nd à oqu á n, which means people are honest. From the dead.

The origin of Idioms

"Corpse": "(Confucius) too steal spring, thirsty and do not drink, evil its name also."

Idiom usage

The verb object type; as predicate; with commendatory meaning. Example Sima Zhen Suoyin in biographies of Boyi in historical records said: "don't be an official, don't drink and steal the spring, wrap your feet on the top of the mountain, and flee to the shore of the sea."