put your hands together

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.
See also: hand, put, someone, together
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
See also:
  • put (one's) hands together (for someone or something)
  • put them together for someone
  • 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 somebody's hands
  • out of your hands
References in periodicals archive
"The first thing you do is phone the ambulance and I've got a rough idea to listen for a breath and put your hands together where the bones meet on the chest, that's where you compress.
Speaking after the bungled Braveheart screening, he said: "Please put your hands together for Charlie and Craig of The Proclaimers for their PS1000 donation, Charlie and Craig have sent us a wee message to wish everybody all the best.
Fellow boxer Danny Cassius Connor tweeted yesterday: "Everyone put your hands together, get on your knees and pray for Gary Murray."
So please everyone put your hands together and give the golden hearted boy the send off he deserves.
This sound-activated switch worked if you put your hands together...
Or catch them any time of year via their podcast, Put Your Hands Together.
STANDING TO DELIVER Put your hands together for David Pipe's great Ovation.
Put your hands together please for Most Naive Twerp in Government: Vince Cable, the Business Secretary who undersold publicly owned Royal Mail.
If you're a newcomer to concert-going, don't put your hands together until the others do.
Put your hands together." The DJs played Don't You Worry Child , which is the official song of their literally One Last Tour , to cheers.
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Or being at the PTA barn dance and clapping the winner of the raffle on to the stage, whereupon the organiser asks the lucky recipient of the bottle of Tesco's Scotch for his name and then bellows "Put your hands together for our lucky winner, Lord King!" Anyway, back to Lord Triesman and the newspaper's role in his demise and, apparently, the ruination of England's aspirations to stage the 2018 finals.
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together ^^^^^^^ for the beautiful, melodious, award-winning name, drum rolllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!@#$%^& Kirk Shaw
Won't you put your hands together and give God some praise for our city council president and the next mayor of the city of Harrisburg, the Honorable Linda Thompson?"