Romeo and Juliet
Explain the phrase “with unwashed hands” as it is used in lines 3-4 (See note in My Shakespeare - click on the feather)
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The expression, “with unwashed hands” means to be in a hurry, and the butler is feeling so pressed for time that he’s speaking to the servants without his normal politeness, and that lack of politeness seems to the servants a “foul thing.”