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shake hands

verb as in meet halfway

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"Keep shaking hands and pretend you're a good man," Ms Fallon replied, clearly annoyed by how her questions had been received.

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Chelsea were tempted to shake hands there and then, but opted to finish the selection process.

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Alexi Lalas, once a bruising center back, looks at politics the same way he looks at soccer, as a contact sport in which you fight to the end, then shake hands.

Maybe that’s why World Cups end with the two teams shaking hands, one offering congratulations and the other condolences, and elections don’t.

When a photo later appeared in the paper showing him shaking hands with then Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams a sign was placed at the end of his street calling him a traitor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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