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akimbo
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Definition:with hands on hips & elbows bent
photo: by Pearson Scott Foresman, CC0
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Pyotr jumped on the box, and putting his arms akimbo, told the coachman to drive to the booking-office.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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The foremost man in the group paused opposite citizen Bibot, and with arms akimbo, and legs planted well apart tried to assume a rigidity of attitude which apparently was somewhat foreign to him at this moment.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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he pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair, stuck an arm akimbo, and smirked extravagantly by, wriggling his elbows and body, and drawling to his attendants,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Clatter and shouts at the door. Protests from the unseen guards. Dr. Fowler Greenhill pounding in, stopping with arms akimbo, shouting as he strode down to the table, “What do you three comic judges think you’re doing?”
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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he’s like a doll, an old one that’s been pillaged and discarded, in some corner, akimbo.
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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