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  2. Crossed fingers - Wikipedia

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    The gesture is referred to by the common expressions "cross your fingers", "keep your fingers crossed", or just "fingers crossed". The use of the gesture is often considered by children as an excuse for telling a white lie. [2] By extension, a similar belief is that crossing one's fingers invalidates a promise being made. [3]

  3. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Crossed fingers are used superstitiously to wish for good luck or to nullify a promise. Cuckoo sign, touched or screw loose. In North America, making a circling motion of the index finger at the ear or temple signifies that the person "has a screw loose", i.e. is speaking nonsense or is crazy. [8] [13]

  4. Truce term - Wikipedia

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    These were crossed fingers of one hand (44%), crossed fingers of both hands (26%), thumbs through fingers (6%) (boys only) and arms crossed across the chest (2%). Other gestures, reported in ones and twos, included miming an injection into the arm, licking the thumb, making a T-shape with the hands, three fingers held up and the "Vulcan" sign ...

  5. Cross-dominance - Wikipedia

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    Cross-dominance, also known as mixed-handedness, hand confusion, or mixed dominance, is a motor skill manifestation in which a person favors one hand for some tasks and the other hand for others, or a hand and the contralateral leg. For example, a cross-dominant person might write with the left hand and do everything else with the right one, or ...

  6. Why cartoon characters often only have three fingers - AOL

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    Hands are often the most difficult part of a character to animate

  7. Gesture - Wikipedia

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    Finger gestures are commonly used in a variety of ways, from point at something to indicate that you want to show a person something to indicating a thumbs up to show everything is good. [27] Some gestures are near universals, i.e., found all over the world with only some exceptions. An example is the head shake to signify "no". [28]

  8. Photo of woman crossing her legs on a subway is baffling the ...

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    How did she get her legs so wrapped up like that? For some people it's hard enough to just sit comfortable with one leg over the other -- and men especially.

  9. What is body integrity dysphoria? Why a man amputated 2 ... - AOL

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    A 20-year-old Canadian man no longer has two of his healthy fingers after deciding to get them amputated, and body integrity identity disorder is why doctors agreed to it.