Meaning of Roman hands and Russian fingers | Babel Free

Definitions

A tendency towards unwanted sexual touching.

euphemistic, humorous, plural, plural-only

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Examples

“He might turn in test papers that were utterly blank—or blank except for a large, decorative question-mark—and Mrs. Douglas had discovered it was best to keep him away from the girls because of his Roman hands and Russian fingers, but he was quiet, so quiet that there were times when he might have been taken for a big lump of clay that had been crudely fashioned to look like a boy.”

“"Let's just say he had Roman hands and Russian fingers," she said. "I made him take me back home."”

“I described them as foreigners — with Roman hands and Russian fingers. If that's all they wanted, they could just hit the dusty trail. I double-dated some, but decided I wasn't going out by myself with a boy again.”

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