limp fish
limp handshake

The next time he got a limp fish that had been dead far too long.

I have been told never to offer limp fish handshake."

Be gentle, especially with the ladies, but not so gentle that you become a 'limp fish'.

Thanks to Sarah for submitting that limp fish.

Sweaty palms, the limp fish, lady fingers - shaking hands is a minefield.

Startled, she hung in his arms like a limp fish, having managed to avoid being embraced by anyone since she was a child.

Perfect your handshake; no limp fish please.

I studied the five limp fish.

That's like a limp fish.

After the 50th handshake, you couldn't help but focus on this one's limp fish grip, that one's bone-crusher special.

Jane Robson was a limp fish who befriended Morse to use as an alibi.

Let the never-too-thin or too-rich of Eastern cities devour limp fish and vacuous chicken, white and bloodless as paper.

In the US and Germany you could look forward to a bonecrusher of a handshake, in the Middle East something more like a limp fish.

Studies have also categorised several handshake styles, e.g. the finger squeeze, the bone crusher (shaking hands too strongly), the limp fish (shaking hands too weakly), etc.

What's more interesting is their differences, which is essentially a list of reasons why one of the films is successful in its intentions and the other flails about like limp fish.

The duck-dog family party sat in a line along the crest of the fast drying sand ridge, appreciably closer to the ship, their attention all for the men and the now limp fish.

And for a show that has never relied on shocking the viewer into attention every five minutes, it's remarkable at making simple, fleeting images-say, the limp fish on Sally's plate in "At the Codfish Ball"-stunning and archetypal.

We all know the handshake thing isn't that hard - just carefully avoid the 'limp fish' or 'the bone-breaker'.

He rose to see them out with limp handshakes all around.

He could vaguely recall a limp handshake, and an Irish name.

Many women will have what others say is a limp handshake in which hands are touched and held but with gentleness.

It was fun to see the shock on the faces of strangers when I gave them this hand in a limp handshake.

And a little bit like a limp handshake.

Loew gave me a limp handshake and walked away.

He has a very limp handshake, which gives an impression of weakness and indecisiveness.

Goldman contented himself with a rather limp handshake and a muttered hello.

The great clunking fist had become the great limp handshake.

Unsmiling, he offered me a limp handshake, then suggested we sit in the hotel’s outdoor coffee shop.

He greeted him in an offhand way, stood up and gave him a Limp handshake.

Why do you have a limp handshake?

I don't trust men with limp handshakes.

The man wiped his hands ineffectually on his hips and gave her a limp handshake.

They offer faint smiles and gentle, limp handshakes.

After a limp handshake, Metcalfe disappeared with hardly a word of thanks for Moss.

Practice the art of limp handshakes.

With a limp handshake and a thick accent, you might peddle credit cards door to door for $2 a day.

They helped her with the big things, like management skills, and the little things, like a problem she had with a limp handshake.

Face after smiling face presented themselves, bringing limp handshakes and words of concern that never failed to ring hollow.

He gave Ramage a limp handshake.

Give a weak, limp handshake.

The majestic disinterest of its "Stand clear, doors closing" almost demands a curtsy or a limp handshake.

A lazy greeting is regarded with the type of disdain that would accompany a limp handshake in parts of the West.