throw up (one's) hands in horror Idiom
throw one's hands up in horror
Idiom(s): throw one's hands up in horrorTheme: SHOCK
to be shocked; to raise one's hands as if one had been frightened.
• When Bill heard the bad news, he threw his hands up in horror.
• I could do no more. I had seen more than I could stand. I just threw up my hands in horror and screamed.
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v. phr. To be horrified; feel alarmed; give up hope of straightening things out; be shocked by something terrible. When Mrs. Brown saw the mess the children were making in her living room, she threw up her hands in horror. Everybody threw up their hands in horror at the destruction caused by the hurricane.horror
horrorsee under throw up one's hands.
throw up (one's) easily in horror
To announce one's afraid and abashed acquiescence to or accepting of something. We threw up our easily in abhorrence afterwards they told us that our arrangement had been rescheduled afresh for a third time. All you can do is bandy your accoutrements up in abhorrence at the way the government is actuality run these days.Learn more: hand, horror, throw, up
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