get one's hands dirty (English, verb)
expansion: get one's hands dirty (third-person singular simple present gets one's hands dirty, present participle getting one's hands dirty, simple past got one's hands dirty, past participle (UK) got one's hands dirty or (US) gotten one's hands dirty)
Senses:
glosses: To get involved with the unpleasant parts of a task, such as manual labor or unethical activities.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: gets one's hands dirty
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: getting one's hands dirty
tags: participle
present
form: got one's hands dirty
tags: past
form: got one's hands dirty
tags: UK
participle
past
form: gotten one's hands dirty
tags: US
participle
past