"rub one's hands together" meaning in English

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      "form": "rubs one's hands together",
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      "form": "rubbing one's hands together",
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      "form": "rubbed one's hands together",
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          "text": "2017 Interest rate rise: What you are saying BBC News, 2 November 2017. Accessed 3 August 2018.\n\"\"It's been over 10 years and it's about time we got a little bit more,\" Ms Tongue pointed out. \"I'm rubbing my hands together, definitely.\"\""
        },
        {
          "text": "2018 Riley Beveridge, No final decision on 2019 AFLW Fixture Brisbane Lions, 3 August 2018. Accessed 3 August 2018.\n\"\"But I thought when those two new teams came in … I was rubbing my hands together thinking 'we are going to get a legitimate competition here, we will play everyone once and head into a finals series, you beauty'.\""
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      "glosses": [
        "To anticipate something eagerly."
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        "(idiomatic, colloquial) To anticipate something eagerly."
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        {
          "word": "lick one's chops"
        }
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        {
          "word": "rub one's hands"
        }
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "hieroa käsiään yhteen"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "se frotter les mains"
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  "word": "rub one's hands together"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "rubbing one's hands together",
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        "present"
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "lick one's chops"
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        {
          "text": "2017 Interest rate rise: What you are saying BBC News, 2 November 2017. Accessed 3 August 2018.\n\"\"It's been over 10 years and it's about time we got a little bit more,\" Ms Tongue pointed out. \"I'm rubbing my hands together, definitely.\"\""
        },
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          "text": "2018 Riley Beveridge, No final decision on 2019 AFLW Fixture Brisbane Lions, 3 August 2018. Accessed 3 August 2018.\n\"\"But I thought when those two new teams came in … I was rubbing my hands together thinking 'we are going to get a legitimate competition here, we will play everyone once and head into a finals series, you beauty'.\""
        }
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        "To anticipate something eagerly."
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        "(idiomatic, colloquial) To anticipate something eagerly."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "rub one's hands"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "hieroa käsiään yhteen"
    },
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      "word": "se frotter les mains"
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  "word": "rub one's hands together"
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