back of one's hand

Meaning: Aslap.1903,Harold MacGrath, chapter 13, inThe Grey Cloak:"And have that boor D'Hérouville laugh? No! Let him give me the chance, and I will give him theback of my hand."; (idiomatic,figurative,by extension)A display ofdisrespectorscorn.1818,Sir Walter Scott, chapter 11, inThe Heart of Mid-Lothian:"Out upon ye, Mr. Saddletree!" exclaimed David, . . . "out upon your General Assembly, and theback of my handto your Court o' Session!"1860,Anthony Trollope, chapter 32, inCastle Richmond:[A]nd theback of my handto them that have come in the way, bringin' sorrow, an' desolation, an' misery on gentlefolks.1905(date written),James Joyce, “Grace”, inDubliners, London:Grant Richards, publishedJune 1914,→OCLC,page199:'And have you nothing for me, duckie?''O, you! Theback of my handto you!' said Mrs Kernan tartly.1984July 18, Don Meiklejohn, “Commentary: Pepper recalls day he was almost a nominee”, inGainesville Sun, retrieved15 November 2013:"As I said, Truman showed him theback of his handrather than any desire to cooperate."2013April 18,Ken Blackwell, Bob Morrison, “Snubbing Thatcher's Funeral? No, Obama Is Consistent!”, inAmerican Thinker, retrieved15 November 2013:When German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2009 invited him to come to Berlin to help celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, Mr. Obama gave her theback of his hand.

Examples:

No examples available.

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).