clap one's hands red

verb

To clap or applaud intensely.

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Meanings

verbclap one's hands red (third-person singular simple present claps one's hands red, present participle clapping one's hands red, simple past and past participle clapped one's hands red)

present singular third person claps one's hands red · participle present clapping one's hands red · participle past clapped one's hands red · past clapped one's hands red

  1. idiomaticTo clap or applaud intensely.

    Indeed a sizeable crowd assembled at a crumbling warehouse and clapped their hands red, cheered themselves hoarse at this strange music.

    2015, Geraldine Wooller, Trio, Transit Lounge, →ISBN
    1 more example

    At the end of the lecture, the old man strode to the front of the hall, shook the American by the hand and said - with passion - 'My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years.' We clapped our hands red.

    2006, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Press, page 284
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