Noun : Visiting dignitaries were being given the glad hand. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The candidate spent weeks glad-handing around the state. From Dictionary.com.
Now if you don't mind, I'd better glad-hand some customers. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Hank went off to glad-hand somebody else and Mac glared at me. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Not to schmooze fans, glad-hand sponsors or get face time on television. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Singh puts energy towards golf and family, not controversy] Reference
The executives, during development, will make promises, and glad-hand the director. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
She didn't just glad-hand with DC's power players in the run-up to the health-care vote. From Wordnik.com. [John Yemma: Nancy Pelosi's Secret Power Network] Reference
That said, let's not lose track of unique U.S. strengths, such as shameless marketing and a great ability to glad-hand. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Kanellos: How to Cure the Energy Brain Drain] Reference
Politicians from both parties make powerful speeches and glad-hand people during election time, but offer little of substance. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Terrorists Over Here] Reference
Matthew Fox (pictured) showed up, too, mostly to glad-hand a fan and smile pretty for the room (and he did look mighty pretty). From Wordnik.com. [Ask the Addict: Comic Con Edition | the TV addict] Reference
The session has created an odd atmosphere on Capitol Hill: There are few long-winded committee hearings, few VFW delegations to glad-hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lame-duck sessions supposed to be a thing of the past, historians say] Reference
Samsung TV sets are the official HDTVs of the NFL, so it only makes sense that Marino would glad-hand consumers at the company's mammoth booth. From Wordnik.com. [CES Diary: Familiar Faces In The Crowd] Reference
Those behind the new club believe it will be the perfect opportunity for elite business-types in Edinburgh and Glasgow to glad-hand with the influential. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-11] Reference
Here were some of the most dangerous men in recent US history, and everyone seemed content to glad-hand them, complement their tux, and ask for a snapshot. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Orton: Loving The Softer Side Of Those Ruining Your Country At The WH Correspondents Dinner] Reference
As the media elite gathered in Washington to gawk, glad-hand and rub elbows with President Obama at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, a dark cloud that was gathering under their feet had already started to dissipate. From Wordnik.com. [Sharon Waxman: At White House Correspondent's Dinner, Enquirer Cloud Looms] Reference
Most glad-hand crowd members and pose for pictures. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
All Coach Brown does is play golf and glad-hand the alumni. From Wordnik.com. [Rock Chalk Talk] Reference
By day, you glad-hand corporate chieftains, give speeches, sip ginger ale from fluted glasses. From Wordnik.com. [SI.com] Reference
It is over this proving ground that she will glad-hand her base, carefully counting them off to see if they amount to a hill o 'beans. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Every time he started down Town he would have to zigzag so as to cover both sides of the Street and glad-hand all of his Acquaintances. From Wordnik.com. [People You Know] Reference
But Jean, the Haitian-born, Quebec-raised Radio-Canada broadcaster, brought more to the post than the ability to glad-hand her way across a room. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Brown will have another chance to glad-hand LGBT voters when he will be the featured guest at the Stonewall Democrats Sacramento chapter's annual gala in May. From Wordnik.com. Reference
BT chairman Sir Michael Rake went to the Welsh Assembly on Monday, to glad-hand politicos and lobby for local government cash for deploying fibre in the pricipality. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
So, neither the practiced politicos in Chicago or in the White House could wine and dine, glad-hand, lobby or perform the most basic function of any campaign: count potential votes. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Fairly often some young couple he'd never seen before would breeze in, pasted smiles on their faces, giving him the glad-hand and talking to him as though they'd been on a first name basis for a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Room] Reference
That means being contractually obliged to glad-hand with sponsors, turn up for television interviews and seek the approval of tour officials before signing book deals and agreements to write for magazines. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
As mayor, she didn't do much except hold her hand out to Don Young, Frank / Lisa Murkowski, and Ted Stevens and glad-hand with the public - the city manager ran the daily operations of the city (I know, I was a city manager). From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
As we walked through the gym, Webb had to be prompted to shake the hands of the (adorable) children scurrying around him, and the look on his face as he prepared to glad-hand was that of a man steeling himself for the dentist's chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
On Saturday morning, Paul rode in a parade through the streets of Campbellsville, then drove his SUV to Morgantown for the Catfish Festival appearance to glad-hand with supporters, many of them farmers, for about an hour in 90-degree temperatures. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
A glad-hand artist, which is what a bank president has to be today -- he's got to be a speaker and a handshaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Next Door] Reference
Five days later, Cruise dropped by Amazon’s Seattle headquarters to glad-hand staffers and host a sneak peek at his new movie, “Valkyrie.”. From Wordnik.com. [Author believes Tom Cruise pressured Amazon to stop selling book critical of Scientology] Reference
"Why else would they bring the leader into Rimutaka in the ninth hour … to glad-hand and meet with the people?. From Wordnik.com. [NewsWire.co.nz] Reference
Walker said he's no "apologist for development" and that he "doesn't want to glad-hand the private sector and say the pathway to a brilliant future is the absence of regulation. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
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