Vocabulary

手を引く

to withdraw from (a deal); to wash one's hands of

expression verb

Example sentences

If you have a positive attitude, you are looking for ways to solve the problems that you can solve, and you are letting go of the things over which you have no control.

You'd better back off.

Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.

The company withdrew from the project.

The businessman didn't dare withdraw from the transaction.

Leave me out of this plan. I don't want to get involved.

The mother is leading her child by the hand.

She was leading her grandmother by the hand.