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Vincent Ding  +  369306 Wed, 23 May 07 01:01 PM

I would like to what "drop hands" can mean. I'm sorry I do not have a good context for it. Hopefully someone can shed some light anyhow.

Thanks in advance.

Vincent

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nona the brit  +  369387 Wed, 23 May 07 04:22 PM
Without context it could mean many things but the first thing that comes to my mind is that it is an instruction that people who are holding hands, should stop holding hands.
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Anonymous, 200 days ago
The most common use is legalistic. Example "the parties have agreed a drop hands settlement", what it means is that persons who are in some kind of dispute agree to walk away from the dispute leaving the losses where they lie, in other words neither party pursuses his or her arguments any further.


I am guessing the origin of the phrase is from card playing eg poker, where a party "throws in" or "drops" his "hand" of cards if he doesnt want to play the round any further, hence if all players throw in their hands, it means they are all walking away from the game.

Avangi  +  720586 Thu, 07 May 09 11:55 PM
Until I read Anon, I was ready to agree with Nona.  It sounded to me like a squaredance instruction.

But Anon's input sounds like a winner.
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Anonymous, 122 days ago
A "drop hands" offer is an offer made by a party to legal proceedings.  In some countries (eg England) the losing side in court pays the costs of both sides.  A drop hands offer means that each party should pay its own costs.
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