rub one's hands

English

Verb

rub one's hands (third-person singular simple present rubs one's hands, present participle rubbing one's hands, simple past and past participle rubbed one's hands)

1. Alternative form of rub one's hands together
   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnson, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:

     Motorway-minded Marples might have been rubbing his hands, and the sorry deficit figures placed on his desk gave him all the ammunition he needed to press the case for reform.