rub one's hands

Idioms  

1. Experience or exhibit pleased anticipation or self-satisfaction, as in The owner rubbed his hands as the customer picked out item after item. This metaphoric term alludes to the actual rubbing together of one's hands to express pleasure.

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Example Sentences

It is usual," Menehwehna explained, "to rub one's hands at the mention of Manabozho.

From Fort Amity by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

In the morning it was cold enough to make one rub one's hands and stamp the feet.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike