put (one's) hands together (for someone or something)
put (one's) hands together (for someone or something)
To applaud (someone or something); to clap (for someone or something). Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for our next comedian this evening! Everyone started putting their hands together to signal that they wanted the concert to begin.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
put your hands together
COMMON If you put your hands together for a performer, you clap them. I know you're going to put your hands together for the master of rap!
See also: hand, put, together
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
put your hands together
applaud.See also: hand, put, together
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
put them together for someone
verbSee put your hands together for someone
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put your hands together for someone
and put them together for someone tv. to applaud someone. (To put hands together clapping.) Please put your hands together for Ronald and his great musicians!
See also: hand, put, someone, together
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- put them together for someone
- put your hands together
- put your hands together for someone
- join hands
- put (one's) hands up
- be good with (one's) hands
- be good with your hands
- out of (one's) hands
- out of hands
- out of somebody's hands