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the original tool, weapon, and punctuation mark all bundled into five fingers
means A hand with the fingers curled tightly into the palm, typically clenched for striking, gripping, or signaling resolve.
from From Old English 'fyst,' carried down from a Proto-Germanic root (compare Dutch 'vuist' and German 'Faust'). Scholars suspect a deeper link to the Proto-Indo-European root for 'five' — the notion being a hand of five fingers gathered into one — though that connection is plausible rather than certain.
- raised symbol
- Universal sign of revolution and solidarity worldwide
- thumb rule
- Tuck it inside and you break it
- fist bump
- Spreads fewer germs than a handshake
- knuckle origin
- Boxing knuckles aligned for striking, not grabbing
- baby reflex
- Newborns grip so hard they could hang
for instance
tyson's bite of holyfield — mike tyson's ear bite in 1997 is counterpoint—what a fist fighter did without his fists in the ring
thurgood marshall's fist pump — civil rights icon raised his fist after winning brown v. board of education in 1954