—‧ You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Entries include air-punching - the action of thrusting a clenched fist into the air in elation or triumph - and bovver - part of the catchphrase of comedian Catherine Tate's teenage character Lauren.
Screaming through my clenched teeth.
The rabbis of old put it this way: "A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.
UNCOOKED PASTA: CLENCHED FIST : This might look small, but pasta doubles in weight once cooked, as it absorbs water.
After a while, with his teeth clenched to endure the pain, he gouged out a piece of flesh from his thigh to conceal the pearl there.
To her great surprise,the poor old man was there sitting on the floor,his teeth clenched and his right hand bleeding!
" A fist clenched inside me with those words.
Baba never said so, but I knew he saw my car sickness as yet another of my array of weakness--I saw it on his embarrassed face the couple of times my stomach had clenched so badly I had moaned.
"I grew up with Ali," he said through clenched teeth.
I remember how Baba's hands clenched around the steering wheel.
Eight years old, pale and skinny, the woman in the green coat who would become his wife had clenched her small fingers around the pen and practiced cursive writing alone in her room, hour after hour, until she wrote with the exquisite fluidity of running water.
He clenched his fists tightly and shook them ferociously at Miss Martha.
" Sometimes, when such thoughts crossed his mind, the fiery nature rose within him, and he beat the wall with his clenched fists.
The ice glittered, the snow crackled, the skaters skimmed over the polished surface of the lakes; ravens and crows formed a pleasing contrast to the white ground, and not a breath of wind stirred, and in the still air old Winter clenched his fists, and the ice lay fathoms deep between the lands.
" Ugly monkeys sat high in the branches and clenched their teeth.
