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Zack Phuc
2021-07-07 09:07
Show (someone) the back of (one's) hand idiom
If you show someone the back of your hand, you hit them or smack them with the backside of your hand.
Remember! I will not hesitate to show you the back of my hand if I ever see you around my brother's house again.
If you show someone the back of your hand, you reproach or reprimand someone, or show disdain or rejection toward someone.
Chiara told me that I was a horrible speaker so I did not hesitate for a moment to show her the back of my hand and walk away from her.
The prodigal son came back to find out that his parents no longer accepted him into the family and merely showed him the back of their hand.
To openly show ridicule or contempt for someone by literally laughing in front of them
To hit, attack or strike someone in a way that causes serious injury or death
1. To sprinkle or cover something with a lot of something
2. To add or mix a lot of something in something such as a speech,video, story etc
3. To continuously attack someone or something with something such as stones, bullets, etc
Used in reference to the period of the economic stagnation that troubled British people, government, or society in the 1970s and early 1980s
A slap on the side of one's head, usually as a punishment
Do you see anything wrong?
1. To punch a hole in one's ticket to show that they have paid for a ride
2. To do something that allows one to go further in a competition or to be promoted at work
1. Please, tell me if I forget to punch your ticket.
2. With a view to punching my ticket to the final, I did whatever it takes to win this round.
