clap one's hands red

English

Verb

clap one's hands red (third-person singular simple present claps one's hands red, present participle clapping one's hands red, simple past and past participle clapped one's hands red)

  1. (idiomatic) To clap or applaud intensely.
    • 2006, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Press, page 284:
      At the end of the lecture, the old man strode to the front of the hall, shook the American by the hand and said - with passion - 'My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years.' We clapped our hands red.
    • 2015, Geraldine Wooller, Trio‎[1], Transit Lounge, →ISBN:
      Indeed a sizeable crowd assembled at a crumbling warehouse and clapped their hands red, cheered themselves hoarse at this strange music.
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