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Shake hands

verb

Take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation.

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"Shake hands" Quotes from Famous Books

... congratulations! I'm just back from a trip home and was going to look you up this afternoon and shake hands with you. I'll do it now. You're ...

— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... guests and into the parlor to shake hands with General and Mrs. Brady and Jim. The gay company spread themselves through the parlor and sitting-room. They chattered, they laughed, they got up from their seats and sat down again, and all the time little Jim had ...

— The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys • Gulielma Zollinger

... a heart-rending separation, or after a long interval of heart-burnings and misunderstandings, there are always the externals of life to be observed. It is difficult to rush into the tragedy of one's existence at a gulp; it is safer to shake hands and ...

— Vera Nevill - Poor Wisdom's Chance • Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron

... man rose from his seat, and said, in tolerable English, that he was glad to see me, (at which I was also delighted) and then begged, like all the inhabitants of Northern Europe, that I would shake hands with him. I did so, and taking my hand in his, he clapsed it firmer than I imagined he could, and looked into ...

— A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden - 2nd edition • W. A. Ross

... pleasant?" said Mr. Richmond, smiling. "But you do not doubt that it would be pleasant to any stranger to have you come up and speak and shake hands, and ...

— What She Could • Susan Warner

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