Sentence examples for kissing hands from inspiring English sources
Kissing hands, or, The strangers at court [graphic].
When there's a leadership election, the 1922 chairman (there's never been a woman in its 93-year history) reads out the results; he regularly conveys the views of backbenchers to the party leader; and he's often the first person invited to Downing Street when a new Tory PM returns from kissing hands at Buckingham Palace.
MR: Kissing hands and shaking babies, nice.
The Prime Minister takes office by attending the Monarch in private audience, and after "kissing hands" that appointment is immediately effective without any other formality or instrument.
Brown "will kiss hands" with the Queen.
PARMA, ITALY — Captains of industry came and kissed hands.
When new prime ministers kiss hands, they don't actually kiss the Queen's hand.
The king had preferred Lord Halifax to succeed Chamberlain, but by 6 o'clock Churchill had kissed hands and was prime minister.
Lord Heseltine has just told the BBC that he once kissed hands (when he joined the privy counsel).
I believe TB would have kissed hands in 1994, & GB in 1997, & neither ever again.
