"have blood on one's hands" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-have blood on one's hands.ogg Forms: has blood on one's hands [present, singular, third-person], having blood on one's hands [participle, present], had blood on one's hands [participle, past], had blood on one's hands [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|have<has,,had> blood on one's hands}} have blood on one's hands (third-person singular simple present has blood on one's hands, present participle having blood on one's hands, simple past and past participle had blood on one's hands)
  1. (idiomatic, often sarcastic) To be responsible for a violent act. Tags: idiomatic, often, sarcastic Categories (topical): Violence Translations (be responsible for a violent act): 負有血債 (Chinese Mandarin), 负有血债 (fùyǒu xuèzhài) (Chinese Mandarin), bloed aan zijn handen hebben (Dutch), olla verta käsissään (Finnish), avoir du sang sur les mains (French), ha blod på hendene (Norwegian Bokmål), mieć krew na rękach (Polish), ter sangue nas mãos (Portuguese), ha blod på sina händer (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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