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"empty hands" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the feeling of not having anything to show for a certain effort. For example, "I spent months searching for a job, but I returned with empty hands."
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Free empty hands.
Jyoti opened her empty hands.
He showed her his empty hands.
Blake grinned and threw his empty hands over his head.
The others held out empty hands: "One dollar!
Then Chapo shouted, "O.K., O.K., O.K., O.K.!" and extended his empty hands through the bathroom doorway.
"And if not, in any case, you go like you arrived, with empty hands".
To stop the bus, people sat and lay on the ground, extending empty hands.
He was greeted by as many empty hands as full ones, maybe more.
They themselves don't realize how much they hold in their empty hands.
"I would return home with empty hands and couldn't marry or build a house.
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