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单词 to shake hands with the wife's best friend
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to 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.
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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.].
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