wring your hands
If you wring your hands, you show that you are worried or unhappy:
Car dealers are wringing their hands over low sales this summer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Expressing and showing feelings
- abandon
- affective
- be in/get into a state idiom
- beat your breast/chest idiom
- beetroot
- bubble
- expression
- flame
- hot and heavy idiom
- impassioned
- lose it idiom
- marvel
- moved
- pine
- throw
- viscerally
- vocalize
- wear your heart on your sleeve idiom
- whimper
- wring
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