What does hand wringing mean?
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hand wring·ing
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hand wringingnoun
The repeated clasping or squeezing of the hands as a symptom of distress.
hand wringingnoun
A feigned exhibition of distress, usually with implied inaction or vacillating in the face of a dilemma or crisis.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hand wringing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hand wringing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of hand wringing in a Sentence
If you're not ready to take the heat, you shouldn't be in the kitchen, look at it this way : you're actually doing some of these hand-wringing Dems a favor because the bill is, in fact, popular, and people do actually like it.
There's this element of all the companies hand-wringing until one of them takes a step, and then in a few minutes, everyone does it, nobody wants to be the first, and they just take turns on who is going to be the first one to go that time around. Then they all' Thelma and Louise' it and make the call.
And every time it has been, it has been overwhelmingly, 'He needed to go,' it's been consistent. There's not been any hand-wringing.
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- retorcimiento de las manosSpanish
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