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rub one's hands
Idioms and Phrases
Experience or exhibit pleased anticipation or self-satisfaction, as in The owner rubbed his hands as the customer picked out item after item . This metaphoric term alludes to the actual rubbing together of one's hands to express pleasure.Example Sentences
In the morning it was cold enough to make one rub one's hands and stamp the feet.
It is usual," Menehwehna explained, "to rub one's hands at the mention of Manabozho.
It is very low to puff out the cheeks, to put out the tongue, to pull one's beard, rub one's hands, poke out or bite the lips, or to keep them too tightly closed or too open. 17th.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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