glee

be rubbing (one's) hands (with glee)

To be very enthusiastic or happy about something, typically another's misfortune. The CEO was practically rubbing his hands with glee when he heard that our rival company had gone bankrupt.
See also: hand, rubbing

chortle with (a particular quality)

To give a laugh or chuckle filled with some particular emotion or quality. I couldn't help but chortle with delight when I saw the little girl feed her ice cream cone to her dog. I began chortling with amusement over Tom's ridiculous comments.
See also: chortle, particular

chuckle with (a particular quality)

To laugh in a particular manner. I couldn't help but chuckle with delight when I saw the little girl feed her ice cream cone to her dog.
See also: chuckle, particular
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

be rubbing your hands with glee

If someone is rubbing their hands with glee, they are very pleased about something, often something that is bad for someone else. Already the newspapers were rubbing their hands with glee and calling the place "Dr. Terry's House of Horrors". The party leaders are rubbing their hands with glee at Mr Galloway's troubles.
See also: glee, hand, rubbing
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • be rubbing (one's) hands (with glee)
  • be rubbing your hands
  • be rubbing your hands with glee
  • catch a tiger by the tail
  • the blame for (something)
  • blame for
  • blame for (something)
  • blamed
  • a lightning rod for something
  • crush it
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The ceremony was attended by over 200 family and friends, including the bride's Glee pals Darren Criss and Becca Tobin.
The timing for the tour is odd, given that Glee ended in 2015, but both Michele and Criss have kept busy in the meantime.
Both continue to work with "Glee" showrunner Ryan Murphy.
Glee Club, which also runs venues in Cardiff, Nottingham and Oxford, has already elected for the account of profits.
Birmingham businessman Mark Tughan, managing director of the Glee Club group, said: "This really is the David and Goliath of legal battles and at the time I thought this would never end.
Cerryg Jones, from the law firm, said his client was not asking for Glee to be taken off UK screens.
While it was demonstrating a viewer appetite for musical theater among its audience, "Glee" accomplished one more thing: It highlighted, and even helped normalize, young people traditionally deemed marginal both in real life and on TV.
But the judge said Comic Enterprises had not established that Twentieth Century Fox had "passed off" Glee as being associated with Glee Club venues.
And while Ryan Murphy, coming off the heels of the darkly satirical "Nip/Tuck," didn't fancy himself a groundbreaker or pioneer when embarking on the creation of "Glee"--"I wanted to do something that was lighter and more optimistic," he explains of his primary intention--he is proud of the fact that the smallscreen sensation, which Murphy said last October will not go beyond its sixth season, has helped to shape a global landscape of tolerance and acceptance among adolescents, giving encouragement to the LGBT community in a way that, arguably, no other TV series has done before.
It's all to celebrate the arrival of Glee: Season 3 on Blu-ray and DVD - on sale now - from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
The Irish actor won his place on the series through reality TV show The Glee Project, and he is the first cast member to hail from Ireland.
But entertainment website TVLine.com said Lohan would play herself and serve as a celebrity judge when the Glee choir performs at a key contest toward the end of this current season.
Ashley is celebrating the release of the Blu-ray and DVD of Glee: The 3D Concert Movie just in time for Christmas.
Glee: The Music - The Christmas Album Vol 2 has just hit the shops and is selling like hot Christmas cakes.
COME and share the heartache and harmony of six Yorkshire miners in The Glee Club at Darlington's Civic Theatre next week.