GLAD HAND • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Glad hand

... as though he went to church with a four-in-hand and listened to a heavenly choir that is paid a hundred dollars per. It does not seem possible to some rich people that St. Peter is going to extend the glad hand to a dockwolloper, and let the rich man stand out in the cold until he tells how he used his money on earth, whether to oppress the poor or to make them glad. Lots of men are going to be fooled thinking they are going to get ...

— Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy - 1899 • George W. Peck