Gestures and expressions

    to clap, clapped, clapped (one's hands)              to clench (one's fist)

        to cross (one's fingers)                                    to point at   sb /sth

   to shake, shook, shaken (sb's hand)      to stick out (one's tongue)

  to make, made, made a face                 to shrug (one's shoulders)

   to twiddle  (one's thumbs)                          to wink

    to stamp  (one's feet)                               to bow

    to cup, cupped, cupped (one's hands)          to nod, nodded, nodded (one's head)

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1.
In western cultures cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing directly with the index finger at a person is considered rude.

2.
Perry Como (1912-2001) American crooner
I cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing my fingers
Every time that you kiss me goodnight,
Even though you were holding me tight...

3.
A cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing fist is a persistent symbol of resistance and unity.

4.
This golfer has lost the ball. He is angry and is cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing his foot.

5.
The photographer Arthur Sasse tried to persuade Einstein to smile for the camera, but he had smiled for photographers so many times that day that he cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing his tongue instead.

6.
Nursery Rhyme:

My hands upon my head I'll place,
Upon my shoulders, on my face...
Then cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing them, one two three...

7.
You can't teach an old monkey cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing faces.

8.
Instead of shaking hands, people, in some Asian cultures, prefer cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing

9.
She is cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing her hands to hold an apple.

10.
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili and Winston Churchill cross clenched shake stamping to bow to make clap stuck out cupping pointing hands as Curtis Roosevelt looks on.
These three men have met for a debate 60 years after their grandfathers gathered for the Yalta Conference.

Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin (February 1945)