There was the handshake, yes.

And there was a little study about people who don't handshake, and comparing them with ones who do handshake.

Amy Cuddy So a handshake, or the lack of a handshake, can have us talking for weeks and weeks and weeks.

See, we're a secret club with a secret handshake.

Server rejected our request to start the TLS handshake.

All I got was a handshake, a smile and a promise.

Should we draw up papers, or is a handshake good enough?

Well, just that a guy likes to wind up a friendship with a handshake.

The only contract I have here is a handshake between Mr. Madison and myself.

A secret language, a seven second handshake, a way of knowing that you're in or out.

And I haven't the foggiest idea of where you find the ones that don't handshake, because they must be hiding.

It was men, women, young, old not just from military from different organizations, many of them detailed to us just from a handshake.

And we have a handshake with one of the large retail grocers to sell our orchids in all 240 stores in six states.

You know, we're interested in, like, you know an awkward interaction, or a smile, or a contemptuous glance, or maybe a very awkward wink, or maybe even something like a handshake.

Indeed, 2014 was characterized by the continued rise of soft instruments to address global challenges pledges, decrees, self regulation, joint plans of action, and handshake deals. Are the days of organizing international relations according to traditional, formal law over?

RAMALLAH On September 13, 1993, Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas met on the South Lawn of the White House to sign the Israel PLO Declaration of Principles, or the Oslo Accords. PLO leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin then sealed the agreement with a historic handshake.

US President Barack Obama's administration has tried to create the illusion of a change of course in this regard, pushing soft deals that allow the US to participate without submitting to binding rules. Such was the case with the much lauded handshake agreement between Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping on carbon dioxide emissions in November.