Complete Definition of "hand waving"

English

Noun

hand waving, hand-waving

  1. idiom approximation, vagueness, educated guessing, or the attempt to explain or excuse vagaries.

#:The sales pitch sounded good, but they did a lot of hand-waving about the price.

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