press the flesh

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[press the flesh] {v.}, {slang} To shake hands with total strangers by the hundreds, keeping an artificial smile all the way, in order to raise one's popularity during political elections.

* /Incumbent Governor Maxwell was pressing the flesh all day long at six different hotels./

Compare: BABY KISSER.

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	{slang} ⁵⁹³ {v.} ⁸⁶⁷

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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