Let's talk about usage. I'm going to give you some tips and strategies for using this idiom for putting it into practice. Here we go. Let's talk about the first definition definition. Number one, we see the hands again over here. And just remember that the definition number one for this idiom, is getting involved helping out your employees and doing things that are not part of your job responsibilities, but you want to help out and make sure there's high morale at the work environment.

So, with this idiom, we need to match the pronoun to fit this sentence. Here is the pronoun it's a possessive pronoun. Get your hands dirty. This will change. So I'll give you some examples and show you how it will change depending on the subject of the sentence. If it's I I would say I got my hands dirty.

You, you got your hands dirty. You're gonna see a pattern here, you your eye, my and so on. So let's go down the list. He got his hands dirty. She got her hands dirty, we got our hands dirty, they got their hands dirty. You could also change he and she with names.

David got his hand dirty, his hands dirty. Martha got her hands dirty, stuff like that. So this is for the first definition of get your hands dirty. Make sure to match the pronoun to fit the sentence. So match the pronoun in here, you're going to have to match it with the subject of the sentence. Okay, let's go to the second definition.

Second definition includes What the first one did, but also has a second part. Because sometimes when crimes happen, there's someone that's making someone else do a crime. So for example, I got your hands dirty. Maybe I sold you a bicycle, but you didn't know that I stole that bicycle from someone else. So later somehow the police find out and they see your bicycle and they check the computer. And the number serial numbers match and they see that the bicycle you have is stolen.

So they arrest you, and they think you stole the bicycle. You might be innocent, but I got your hands dirty. I got you involved in criminal activity. So they got my hands dirty. Maybe the mob that caught the mob or the gangsters called me on the phone and said we're going to hold your kid hostage if you don't go and rob the bank. So I did criminal activity.

But it was someone else who got me involved and got my hands dirty. She got his hands dirty. He got your hands dirty. We got her hands dirty. So this time we're the criminals and we've found a lady or a woman that we need. We need her to do something illegal for us.

So we got her hands dirty. I got their hands dirty. You got our hands dirty. So there are multiple conversations. The main thing is here, this pronoun will change and we need to make sure it It fits the sentence in matches a subject. this idiom can be used as its own sentence, if it's a command.

A command is telling someone to do something, or requesting that someone do something. So if the sentence is get your hands dirty, do it now. first sentence, get your hands dirty, is telling someone to do something. It's a command. So that's when we can use this idiom as its own sentence because it's a command. We need to make sure the verb get matches the context and the situation.

So we're talking about the past, present future, those kind of situations. So here's the verb to get, and we need to make sure that it matches the rest of the sentence. Let's take a look at this idiom being used in the past, present and future. So you can kind of get an idea how it looks in the past. Last year, we found out they had gotten their hands dirty when they bribe the police to look the other way. Hmm.

So here we are in the past tense. And in this example, get your hands dirty is part of another sentence. It's part of a larger sense So it fits inside, but it's in the past. So the verb change to had gotten in the present. Right now, Sam is getting his hands dirty. He's working with his employees to help finish the project on time.

So in the present right now, is getting his hands dirty, and it's within a larger sentence for the future, next summer, we'll get your hands dirty. When I teach you everything I know about robbing banks. Here we have, we'll get your hands dirty. We can't see the will. But the two L's we'll do is we will, so will is short for we will and in this sentence, we had to make it the future. We'll get your hands dirty.

All right, we just did usage. Let's move on.