shake hands

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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