the back of (one’s) hand A rejection, snub, or rebuke; a display of contempt or scorn for someone or something. She met their accusations with the back of her hand. I give the back of my hand to anyone who says I’m not a good parent. 2. Used to represent one’s complete knowledge of or familiarity with something.

The receptors in our skin are not distributed in a uniform way around our bodies. Some places, such as our fingers and lips, have more touch receptors than other parts of our body, such as our backs. That is one reason why we are more sensitive to touch on our fingers and face than on our backs.

Hello. To know something like the back of your hand means that you know that person or that thing very, very well. For example, you could say, “I know Hong Kong like the back of my hand.” That would mean, I know Hong Kong very, very well and I won’t get lost. You can use it for people, too.

If something is at/in the back of your mind, you intend to do it, but are not actively thinking about it: It’s been at the back of my mind to call José for several days now, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

The examples found were from the 20th century at earliest in publications. It sounds like a colloquialism that caught on eventually, likely in America, and spread. But it’s nothing profound, and likely misleading anyway, since people don’t really study their hands to a degree that they could replicate them from memory.

“I know this city like (I know) the back of my hand”. You know your body better than any one else. You know the back of your hand. This is an idiom used to mean that you know everything about this city.

: in the part of one’s mind where thoughts and memories are kept but that are not usually thought about or not perfectly remembered Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew I’d met him before.

To say that a hand specialist knows something like the back of his or her hand is tantamount to saying they know something as well as something they know well. The idiom becomes circular and loses its a priori value.

dorsal

Palm: This is the bottom of the body of the hand. Back (opisthenar): The back of the hand shows the dorsal venous network, a web of veins. Wrist: The connection point between the arm and the hand, the wrist enables hand movements.

Your palm is the inside part of your hand. Palm can also be a verb, meaning “steal” or “hide inside your hand.” So a magician might palm a coin in her palm, and a shoplifter might palm a diamond ring in a jewelry store. Palm trees are named for their leaves’ similarity to the fingers of a large hand.

to steal by concealing in one’s palm.

Definition of have (someone) in the palm of one’s hand : to have control or influence over (someone) : to be able to control (someone) easily She has her boss in the palm of her hand.

The letter M is found when the major lines on your palm – which are known as the heart, head and life lines – are in alignment.

The lines of marriage are found on the sides of the hand below the little finger. Turn the part of the hand that you rest on while writing in the light and you will see some (it could be one, two, or three) deep cut lines on the hand that run horizontally under the little finger. These are the marriage lines.

The heart line (also called love line) is one of the three major lines in palm reading. It’s just above the head line starting from the edge of the palm under the little finger, running across the palm and ending below the middle finger or forefinger or the place where they join.

If you have an affection line Underneath your pinky finger on the outside of your hand, you might find one or two small lines. Those are your affection lines, often called the marriage line. If you have an affection line or two, you have a strong relationship that will span your whole life. Think: one marriage.

right hand

If the top half of your thumb is bigger than the bottom half it means you are very faithful, a hopeless romantic and sometimes can be a little too passionate. You are the kind of person who can open up easily and is very honest with the people you meet. You are definitely the person anyone would love to be around!

There are no soulmates and if there is an initial carved on your thumb, I don’t know how it would have gotten there. most of us do NOT have soulmates. And the purpose of soulmates is to make each other SO miserable that both souls give up on human love and turn to God to find love.

“The Murderer’s Thumb Unveiled – The clubbed thumb was traditionally called the ‘murderer’s thumb’ denoting the powerful temper of those who carried it. This thumb has a short first phalange (section) and is broad. The tip of the thumb is fleshy and the thumbnail is short and broad.

If you have a flexible finger, you’re more expressive and emotional than people with straight thumbs. This shape is also called the Hitchhiker’s thumb. People like you easily adapt to changing circumstances and new environments. Individuals with flexible thumbs are open to the world and very curious.

Every person has strong and weak fingers, and the stronger some of them are, the more expressed are certain traits of your character. If a finger is bent, leaning to another one or forward, or can’t do certain things, it’s weak. If a finger is long and straight, then it’s strong.

Fingerprints can reveal a whole lot of things about a person, like their intelligence, personality and talents, to name a few. Dermatoglyphics is a branch of science that is dedicated to the study of the mount, the ridges, and the lines that form your fingerprints.

Hitchhiker’s thumb is a thumb that’s hypermobile, or very flexible, and able to bend backward beyond the normal range of motion. Known formally as distal hyperextensibility, this condition isn’t painful and doesn’t inhibit the thumb’s function in any way.