pink-handed
Collocations
5ADJ.
distant, red-, soft
VERB + PINK-HANDED
know, red-handed
PINK-HANDED + NOUN
', agreements, floodlights, men
PREP.
in, in, with
ADV.
perhaps, rather
Definitions
adj
White-collar; working at a desk job as opposed to manual labor.
I know the pink-handed types who get jobs like this interviewer's got, and I know what he's trying to do to me.
The Western conceit is important because it allows Hernhuter to contrast the flat and tame backyard to the precipitous canyon and the colorful dialect of Nest with the bland generalizations of the pink-handed psychiatrist.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, handed.: having hands that are pink.
Squat and gnome-like it looked, silhouetted against the dying fire in the western sky; an odd, elfin-eared, pink-handed, hunchbacked manikin with a tail.
He was pink-cheeked, pink-handed and pink-nosed, all of which combined with his delft-blue eyes to make him look like a mature kewpie.
adv
With clear evidence of guilt, red-handed.
Several major ISPs have been caught red-handed (or perhaps pink-handed) making agreements with known spammers.
'Hence you closed it as soon as I entered and are exhibiting facial capillary dilation and blush response, consistent with what I suspect matches the human phrase “caught red- or rather pink-handed”.'
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6I know the pink-handed types who get jobs like this interviewer's got, and I know what he's trying to do to me.
WiktionaryThe Western conceit is important because it allows Hernhuter to contrast the flat and tame backyard to the precipitous canyon and the colorful dialect of Nest with the bland generalizations of the pin
WiktionaryLode mine investors were often distant financiers: soft, pink-handed men who earned their livings with pens, not hammers.
WiktionarySeveral major ISPs have been caught red-handed (or perhaps pink-handed) making agreements with known spammers.
Wiktionary'Hence you closed it as soon as I entered and are exhibiting facial capillary dilation and blush response, consistent with what I suspect matches the human phrase “caught red- or rather pink-handed”.'
WiktionaryMy friend insists her purple house is where she caught a poacher in her yard, pink-handed, in floodlights she installed after she learned new birds of Featherstone would flock no more.
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