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热情欢迎;
verb
transitive verb
to extend a glad hand to
candidates glad-handing everyone they meet
intransitive verb
to extend a glad hand
glad-handing as if he were running for mayor
noun
a warm welcome or greeting often prompted by ulterior reasons
同时也是 gladhand,1903年,源自动词短语 to give the glad hand "extend a welcome"(1895年); 参见 glad(形容词)。常常带有讽刺意味。相关词汇: Glad-handed; glad-handing。
The first known use of glad-hand was circa 1895
1 Inside the chamber, as the President walked the aisle to the podium, slowly, endlessly, glad-handing legislators, he was confronted by the Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wore a red MAGA hat despite the House’s ban on campaign paraphernalia.
2 Extended scenes of Michel working the room and greeting longtime customers go beyond glad-handing schmaltz to substantive discussions of his practices and influences and, above all, to his unfolding, for diners, of the Troisgros family’s multigenerational story.
3 As the most powerful Chinese leader in generations, Xi Jinping rarely bothers to glad-hand or to try charming a crowd.
4 Ernest has come to Oklahoma to work with his uncle, William Hale (a terrific Robert De Niro), a well-to-do, glad-handing cattle rancher who lives with his small family in a large, gloomy house surrounded by prairie.
5 For one, Democrats — like many Republicans — simply didn’t trust the glad-handing Californian.
6 September 11, 2023 When world leaders assembled for their group photo at the G20 summit in New Delhi Sunday, there was no Xi Jinping to showcase China’s rise, no Vladimir Putin to glad-hand and lobby for Russia’s perspective on its war in Ukraine.
7 Studios fly their movies’ headlining actors to these events to attend premieres, engage in countless interviews, accept tribute awards and glad-hand anyone who might help hype their projects.
8 Mike Pence’s former chief of staff made his pre-show rounds in the Milwaukee Bucks’ players’ parking garage, glad-handing reporters and offering sunny assessments of the ex-Vice President’s place in the field.
9 But for all the talk of South Carolina’s penchant for dirty tricks, the state also values the glad hand.
10 Arguably the most notorious figure from the game’s most storied rivalry flew from his South Florida home to Boston for Tuesday night’s game and was expected to glad hand a few Yankees before, for many of them, the biggest game of their lives.
11 His medium, his material, is human frailty, the near end of original sin, and the tools of his trade are the glad hand, the scratched back, the padded envelope, the cut corner, and the jumped line.
12 Politicians usually give a glad hand to everyone they meet.
政客们通常会装出一幅热情的样子与每个见面的人打招呼.
13 The young politician went down the street on election day giving everyone the glad hand.
在举行选举的那天,那位年轻的政客走上街头,跟每个人热烈地握手.
1 热情招呼