单词 | to shake hands with the wife's best friend |
释义 | > as lemmasto shake hands with the wife's best friend (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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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