shake hands with the milkman
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
52
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Masters and Johnson's study in the early 1960s showed many men still feared mental illness and 'a case of nerves' as a result of excessively shaking hands with the milkman."
- ""This is where I choke the chicken," Giddy told him with a grin. "You know. Shake hands with the milkman." Dave cringed and looked around the room at the posters of half-naked women."
Usage
Inflected Forms
shakes hands with the milkman (present, singular)
shaking hands with the milkman (participle, present)
shook hands with the milkman (past)
shaken hands with the milkman (participle, past)