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Examples
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We all missed your hands-down, hands-up b … um … wisecracks.
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He gave her a hands-up shrug from the other side of the baggage claim and called out so all the observers could hear, “I have a message for you from your luggage.”
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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He gave her a hands-up shrug from the other side of the baggage claim and called out so all the observers could hear, “I have a message for you from your luggage.”
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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He gave her a hands-up shrug from the other side of the baggage claim and called out so all the observers could hear, “I have a message for you from your luggage.”
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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He gave her a hands-up shrug from the other side of the baggage claim and called out so all the observers could hear, “I have a message for you from your luggage.”
Under a Maui Moon Robin Jones Gunn 2010
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So no hands-up from me, Doc; or from any intellectually honest fellow conservative.
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Perhaps in part out of genuine inclination, as suggested by that halting hands-up during the 2007 debate.
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Petersen, who has at times become livid during games this season, merely gave Naanee and Jones, both seniors, a hands-up gesture and a short talk when they returned to the sidelines.
USATODAY.com - College Football - Utah St. vs. Boise St. 2006
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Then, finally, faced seventeen thousand Brits, at which point it was hands-up time.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Even though the “United Irishmen” movement had been infiltrated and all their plans revealed so that on May 23, when the secret republican army turned up at the secret rallying points in Dublin they found themselves in a hands-up situation with government troops already there, one bunch managed to take the town of Wexford.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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