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单词 to shake hands with
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to shake hands with
a. to shake hands (said of two persons mutually saluting thus); also (of one person) to shake hands with (another):
(a) as a greeting, sign of friendship or goodwill, confirmation of a promise, bargain, etc.; (of combatants) as a sign of the absence of ill-feeling. Also figurative, spec. in to shake hands with an old friend, to shake hands with the wife's best friend (colloquial), of men: to urinate.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)] > man
to shake hands with an old friend1952
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. xii. 12 Whervpon they shoke hondes [Gk. λαβόντες δεξιάς], and so they departed to their tentes.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. iii. sig. Lijv That they maye shake handes with me.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 29 But both [combatants] be contented and shake handes.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 52 And comming neer together, they [sc. wrestlers] shake hands, and embrace one another, with a cheerfull look.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 55 They shook Hands, and swore to one another that they would be reveng'd.
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 287 I would rather shake hands with a highwayman than with a gentleman who [etc.].
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. v. 122 Let me see you shake hands, and let us have no more of this nonsense.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 135 ‘Sit down, sir,’ said Mr. Boffin, shaking hands with him.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert v. 48 Now we have shaken hands on the bargain.
figurative.1565 W. Allen Def. & Declar. Doctr. Purgatory Pref. f. 20 I feare me they haue indented with deathe, and shaked handes withe helle.1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 103 Till our Henry had shooke hands with death.1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 588 (note) Resolve, that the Orient shall sooner shake hands with the West.1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. II. lx. 367 Thus do..harvest and the..spring shake hands together.1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 162 Here it was..that I first shook hands with sensuality.1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. iii. 33 Application and I, having once shaken hands, became very good acquaintance.1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 21 That famous son of Philip of Macedon, who with his conquering hosts caused the language of Socrates and Plato to shake hands with the sacred dialect [etc.].1952 M. Tripp Faith is Windsock iii. 44 ‘I'm going out for a crafty smoke; anyone coming?’ ‘Sure, I'll come... I want to shake hands with an old friend, anyway.’1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Sept. 812/2 Expressive Australianisms to describe this prosaic function;..pointing Percy at the porcelain, shaking hands with the wife's best friend, [etc.].
(b) as a farewell.
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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)] > bid farewell
to take leavelOE
to latch one's ease, one's leave1377
to take congee1377
fangc1400
adieua1500
to get one's leave?a1513
to take adieu (also farewell)1539
to shake hands1546
congeea1616
to give congeea1645
farewell1930
sayonara1949
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Eiv We shoke hands, and parted.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 132 I holde it meet without more circumstance at all, Wee shake hands and part.
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 74 Having shaken hands with kind Antonio..we mounted our horses.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxxix. 61 But thou and I have shaken hands, Till growing winters lay me low. View more context for this quotation
figurative.1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xi. 186/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I It is the custome of the more idle sort, hauing once serued,..to shake hand with labour, for euer.1674 S. Vincent Young Gallant's Acad. 99 His word and his meaning are quadrate, and never shake hands and part.1742 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 386 I have long since shook hands with the world.1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxxii. 440 A lonely woman, who has shaken hands with every earthly hope.
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