Handshake Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A laurel and hearty handshake
• An Englishman's word is his bond
• As warm as toast
• At first hand
• Bake and shake
• Big deal
• Bite your hand off
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• Bound hand and foot
• Business at hand
• Cap in hand
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Clinch a deal
• Cold hands warm heart
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Cut a deal
• Dab hand at
• Deal breaker
• Deal from the bottom of the deck
• Deal maker
• Deal me in
• Deal or no deal
• Deal with it
• Do the shake and vac (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Done deal
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Fair shake
• Fold your hand
• Force his hand
• Free hand
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Give a hand
• Go cap in hand
• Golden handshake
• Golden hello
• Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong (Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan)
• Got to hand it to you
• Hale and hearty
• Hand a line
• Hand in glove
• Hand in hand
• Hand in your notice
• Hand it on a plate
• Hand it over
• Hand job
• Hand me down
• Hand me downs
• Hand over
• Hand over fist
• Hand picked
• Hand to mouth
• Hand's turn
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in
• Have it in hand
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Hello Dolly (Louis Armstrong song)
• Hello Goodbye (Beatles song)
• Hello Tosh, gotta Toshiba? (Toshiba advertising slogan)
• Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
• Hello boys (Playtex Wonderbra advertising slogan)
• Hello moto (Motorola advertising slogan)
• Hello sailor
• Hello sunshine! Hello Mountain Dew (Mountain Dew advertising slogan)
• Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy (A catchphrase from Round the Horne)
• Hello, good evening and welcome (A catchphrase from David Frost)
• Hello, hello, what's going on here then?
• Hello, one two three testing
• Helping hand
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• In out, in out, shake it all about
• In the palm of your hand
• Keep your hand in
• Kicked upstairs
• Know like the back of your hand
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• Let's shake hands on it
• Luke warm
• Luke warm reception
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Make a deal with the devil
• Meet and greet
• More than you can shake a stick at
• New Deal (Franklin Roosevelt's social and economic reform)
• No big deal
• Off hand
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• Party hearty
• Protein shake
• Put the freshness back (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Raw deal
• Rest, keep warm and drink liquids (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Right hand man
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Running Up that Hill - A Deal with God (Kate Bush song)
• Seal the deal
• Shake Rattle And Roll (Bill Haley song)
• Shake a leg
• Shake down
• Shake like a leaf
• Shake up
• Shake your booty
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Show your hand
• Sleight of hand
• Square deal
• Strengthen your hand
• Strike a deal (or bargain)
• Sweeten the deal
• Sweetheart deal
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk to the hand
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The Hippy Hippy Shake (The Beatles song)
• The Real Deal (Nickname of Evander Holyfield)
• The answer is at hand
• The body is still warm
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The matter in hand
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The real deal
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• Try your hand
• Upper hand
• Warm and fuzzy
• Warm to the idea
• Warm words
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whip hand
• With a hearty hiho Silver
• Wotcher cock (Cockney version of 'Hello')
• You had me at hello (Jerry Maguire)