Is there a word or an idiom for the hand gesture, done after finishing a task successfully or after knocking down the opponent in a fight? The one like wiping off the dust from your hands, which indicates it's a victory but it was easy for you. Not done to gloat, just happens spontaneously as if it's a natural gesture.
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2The idiom dust off comes to mind.– jxhCommented May 9, 2015 at 23:10
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It's totally gloating. No one does that spontaneously– MitchCommented Nov 16, 2017 at 21:43
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I call it dusting your hands together
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2Phrased a number of different ways, such as "dusting off", "dusting hands", "dusting off hands", etc. Here's a video: youtube.com/watch?v=-ujlxYcd3Wg, and you can find it in Wikipedia's list of gestures as "Hand-dusting". Commented Mar 24, 2016 at 17:17
brush your hands
According to local lore, when God was satisfied with Creation, and brushed his hands together, the crumbs that fell unnoticed from his fingers into the sea formed Cape Verde.
Google Books: Cape Verde Islands By Aisling Irwin, Colum Wilson
He brushed off his opponent.
The act of wiping something from your shoulder more readily portrays this.
