Meaning of shake hands | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To grasp another person's hands as an expression of greeting, farewell, agreement, etc.
2. To part, to say farewell.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors' room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.”

“Shaking hands is probably the most common form of social touch in the U.S., and it’s thought to have originated many centuries ago as assurance that neither party was carrying a weapon.”

“⁠But thou and I have shaken hands, ⁠Till growing winters lay me low; ⁠My paths are in the fields I know, And thine in undiscover’d lands.”

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