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shake hands

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  1. shake handsverb

    take someone's hands and shake them as a gesture of greeting or congratulation

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  1. Matthew Belloni:

    You have to spend money, you have to shake hands. You have to have a message for your movie.

  2. Caitlin Clark:

    I was just trying to get to the handshake line and shake hands and be grateful that my team was in that position, all the credit in the world to LSU. They were tremendous. They deserve it. They had a tremendous season.

  3. Emily Post:

    Our advice to them is to get comfortable with letting people know, because I think the rude thing to do would be to stand there and act like you are ignoring an outstretched hand, if the outstretched hand comes to you and you do not want to shake hands, you want to acknowledge that by saying, 'I actually don't shake hands' or 'I am sorry that I don't shake hands, but I am so pleased to meet you.'.

  4. Joe Biden:

    In my career, Ive always tried to make a human connection, thats my responsibility, I think. I shake hands, I hug people, I grab men and women by the shoulders and say you can do this. And whether theyre women, men, young, old, its the way Ive always been. Its the way Ive tried to show I care about them and Im listening.

  5. Rolfe Neill:

    Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.


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