Glad Handing

There were no lobbyists, expensive hors d'oeuvres, or fancy cars; no press conference or wink, wink, nudge, nudge glad-handing. ❋ Dolores Huerta (2011)

So what's with the photograph of him glad-handing bikers who according to NBC brag about their association with the Outlaws? ❋ Michael Winship (2010)

Word is he drank so heavily just to do the glad-handing routine that a half-hour into the party, sick from drink, he vomited in the museum galleries. ❋ Mat Gleason (2011)

Mr. Obama, in general, does not go out of his way to play the glad-handing, ego-stroking presidential role. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

But Ted Turner himself was also there: fast-talking, larger than life, and glad-handing everyone in attendance. ❋ Lang Whitaker (2011)

But I did have to do a fair amount of glad-handing, which I find very draining. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Look at the way we write about Joe Biden: the backslapping, glad-handing, gaffe-prone goofball. ❋ Howard Kurtz (2010)