show of hands
举手,举手表决,举手示意,举手发言
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- : an indication of approval, disapproval, volunteering, etc., on the part of a group of persons, usually made by each assenting person raising his or her hand.
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Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.
“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.
And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft.
Not actual CIA agents, but U.S. government personnel who have worked very closely with the CIA, and who are fans of the show.
With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
He burst into a loud laugh, clapped his hands, and danced before the delighted babe.
None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.