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Meaning of hand waving | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Discussion or argumentation involving approximation, vagueness, educated guessing, or the attempt to explain or excuse vagaries.

idiomatic

Equivalents

العربية تَلْوِيح بِالْيَد

Examples

“The sales pitch sounded good, but there was a lot of hand waving about the price.”
“Protesters who demand that this brilliantly humane enterprise be stopped should have their motives questioned. Their protest is nothing but the mindless hand waving of Luddites.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

hand wedge hand wheel hand wringing hand-adze hand-arm vibration syndrome Hand-bag

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