英语词汇“to press flesh”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. transitive to press (the) flesh (chiefly U.S. colloquial): to shake hands; to greet by physical contact. Now esp. in reference to people campaigning for political office.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > greet > shake hands

handshake1878

to shake1891

to press (the) flesh1918

1918 J. M. Grider Diary 17 May in War Birds (1927) 148 I have pressed the flesh of royalty now. My hand has gotten accustomed to the grasp of nobility.

1933 A. E. W. Mason Sapphire ii. 16 ‘Press the flesh,’ said I, extending my hand.

1975 W. Safire Before Fall vi. v. 436 The Soviet leader [sc. Brezhnev] surprised Kissinger..with his American political habit of ‘pressing the flesh’—punching an arm, squeezing, backpatting.

1995 Mother Jones June 43/2 Unlike Jack Kemp or Bill Clinton, Limbaugh hates to press flesh.

2002 New Republic 9 Sept. 26/2 In 1972 he..barnstormed across the state. ‘He loved to get out and press the flesh.’

单词	to press flesh
释义	> as lemmas to press (the) flesh e. transitive to press (the) flesh (chiefly U.S. colloquial): to shake hands; to greet by physical contact. Now esp. in reference to people campaigning for political office. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > greet > shake hands handshake1878 to shake1891 to press (the) flesh1918 1918 J. M. Grider Diary 17 May in War Birds (1927) 148 I have pressed the flesh of royalty now. My hand has gotten accustomed to the grasp of nobility. 1933 A. E. W. Mason Sapphire ii. 16 ‘Press the flesh,’ said I, extending my hand. 1975 W. Safire Before Fall vi. v. 436 The Soviet leader [sc. Brezhnev] surprised Kissinger..with his American political habit of ‘pressing the flesh’—punching an arm, squeezing, backpatting. 1995 Mother Jones June 43/2 Unlike Jack Kemp or Bill Clinton, Limbaugh hates to press flesh. 2002 New Republic 9 Sept. 26/2 In 1972 he..barnstormed across the state. ‘He loved to get out and press the flesh.’ extracted from pressv.¹ < as lemmas
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