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Mon 21 May, 2007 02:05 am
In a small town in Iowa, a person is charged (with selling an illegal newspaper - it's a SF novel), judged and sent to prison.
Then a petition is sent to the mayor, who says: "the whole thing is out of my hands". Out of his hands now, or has it never been in his hands in any way?
Insufficient context given. In most towns, the mayor is an elected official who runs civic affairs. He is not a judge or a law official. Maybe this is what he means when he says the affair is "out of his hands".
Insufficient context, yes. Given what we know here, the mayor probably meant "this has nothing to do with me", but the phrase implies "this matter has escalated and other authorities are dealing with it now"
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