Newsletter: Put your hands together

[Alan]

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Hi,

When people are in a group or a crowd and want to show their appreciation for what someone has done or indeed performed, it is an instinctive reaction for them to applaud or to clap. And of course the best way to do that is to use your hands and strike one against the other. Hands are very important parts of the body and they also crop up in a whole host of expressions. I have highlighted some of these expressions in my latest newsletter: Put your hands together

Alan
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English as a Second Language
You can read my ESL story Present Simple

[Aalizzwell]

Yeah.:) hand gesture shows your feelings (next to the eye).

[Goldhat]

Alan, thanks for these great expressions containing the word "hand". I've updated your post to add the link to the full newsletter which is here http://www.english-test.net/newsletter/put-your-hands-together-206.html

This newsletter will be included in the next Email Course mailing in a couple of days time.

One more expression for our readers using "hands" could be "try your hand" which means to try to do something new that you have not done before. Say for example someone invites you to go skiing, you might say "sure, I will try my hand at skiing and see if I can learn it".

Can anyone else give us sentences using these phrases?
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Joel Milne,
English-Test.net Developer

[Shanthisethuraman]

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Dear Allan Sir,

To my great surprise, you have sent me a newsletter "Put your hands together". after a long time
The newsletter is very good, of course we can learn new expressions when we
read it, but I am not social type, I will not give even shaken to anyone except
my close ones. Any way thanks for sending me the newsletter without forgetting me.

Thank you,

S.Shanthi

[Smischke]

I always love your newsletters. Although I am a native English speaker, you almost always teach me something I didn't know before. (This time it was "a dab hand".) I want to thank you for doing this in such an entertaining and effective way. At my work (agricultural research) we have a constant flow of foreign visiting scientists who come for training (and stay anywhere from 1 month to 4 years). Most of them have learned English in school, but when they arrive here, they find that an enormous amount of our communication is idiomatic. I always tell them to subscribe to your newsletter, and they have found it extremely helpful. Thank you so very much!

[Alan]

Hi Smischke,
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Thank you for your comments. I do appreciate it also that you are 'spreading the word'.

Alan
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English as a Foreign Language
You can read my EFL story Progressive Forms

[Michauek]

Dear Alan,

"she is a dab hand at sth" was a very interesting expression - thanks for that and the whole article! You are a dab hand at writing interesting newsletters! :-)
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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Michal. I'm an english student :-)

[Svitlana]

Dear Alan, I want you to put my hands together, because your article is very interesting and informative! Thanks a lot!!!

[Beeesneees]

Hi Svitlana,

I want you to put my hands together...
I want to put my hands together for you... / I want to applaud you...
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Cheers m' dears!

[Alan]

Seems a shame to change it when someone's saying something nice.

Alan
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English as a Second Language
You can read my ESL story Passive Voice

[Beeesneees]

Nice, but odd.
I thought Svitlana might appreciate a version which would seem less strange.

Still, if you want to put Svitlana's hands together, I won't stand in the way.
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Cheers m' dears!

[Svitlana]

Thank you, Beeesneees, "Live and learn!" :-)

[Aprilhehmun]

Hi Alan
Thanks for this Newsletter.This is remind me to put my hands together to others and I want to give you a big hand.

[Oinas]

Hello! In your recent newsletter everything was clearly and thoroughly explained. It was
nice story to read. You certainly are a dab hand at writing stories! You have loads of nice and useful idioms in english language. They are kind of funny in a positive way and I think it makes conversations more colourful. With kind regards, Oinas.

[Mfarzad]

Dear Alan,

Thank you very much for preparing and writing such a great educational article . You have improved the newletter in a great way. Today, when I saw your email I was expecting something mediacore like your previous posts. But, the current one is overwhelmingly brilliant. To tell the truth, I was beginnig to lose my interest in your submissions and I was just spending two or three minutes to read them. However, the current essay has changed my idea and has given me a very nice impression. I have read it several times and am going to print it out. Thanks again for your invaluble contribution to the community. Please keep it on.

Take care,
Farzad