outstretched hand

Yet some think the UK should not seize this outstretched hand.

Rose lingered there for almost the entirety of the session, nudging her guest’s outstretched hand.

But a couple of weeks after his inauguration, during the traditional visit between the two leaders, Trudeau resisted the "yank" at the White House door and then hesitated before taking Trump's weird palms-up outstretched hand in the Oval Office.

His main goal, presumably, is to make his second term a success — and Monday’s speech gives him an opportunity to start on the right foot by offering an outstretched hand to voters who didn’t support him.

A swan nips at her outstretched hand.