Fist

If you make a good fist of something, you do it ____.

  • badly

    Votes: 3 9.4%
  • clumsily

    Votes: 3 9.4%
  • well

    Votes: 26 81.3%

  • Total voters
    32

Tdol

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Alex Thompson

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Fist may refer to:

  • A hand that has the fingers curled into the palm and the thumb retracted, displaying the knuckles
  • In falconry, the hand covered by a heavy glove as in boxing, on which the hawk perches
  • Fist bump a gesture similar in meaning to a handshake or high five
  • The individual characteristics of a telegraph operator's style keying the telegraph key
  • Fist, a recurring character in the BBC Three Situation comedy series Ideal (TV series)
  • FIST (1996 video game), a 1996 video game
  • A raised fist, a salute used by political and social activists
  • Fist (UK band), a heavy metal band from the UK
  • In printing, another name for the symbol ☞, see index (typography)
  • Fist also refers to a band of men (manus), or a squad
 

Violet12357

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I had no idea of what this fist idiom meant...have never heard that expression before. But how can it mean something good....for me raising a fist isn't that good...or have I missed something?
 
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