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To glad-hand is to greet people in a big, warm, “so glad to see you” way — a smile, a handshake, a few friendly words — especially when the warmth is put on for show. Politicians, salespeople, and hosts at big events are the ones who get accused of it. It is not a kind word. If you only say someone shook hands and said hello, that is fine; glad-hand says the friendliness feels cheap or . You will meet it more in American news and talk about public life than in a Taiwan classroom. The usual use is as a verb: you glad-hand the crowd.
假熱情地握手寒暄
組成glad (“happy”) + hand (the hand you shake).
同家族的字
- gladthe happy feeling the greeting pretends to show
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
glad-handverb
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To be overly friendly with (a stranger) in order to gain an advantage.
- Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many people. […] The President, in fact, behaved noticeably like a candidate for reelection.
- Whenever I wasn’t glad-handing NTOC [National Threat Operations Center] leadership at headquarters, I spent my time learning everything I could—“hot-desking” with analysts who worked different programs and different types of targets, so as to be able to teach my fellow team members back in Hawaii the newest ways the agency’s tools might be used.
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To extend a glad hand (to someone); to welcome warmly.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。