#31 akimbo

akimbo- adjective, adverb- with hands on hips and elbows projecting outwards

- C15 in kenebowe, keen bow, sharp curve

Robert at once placed his arms akimbo, and, looking his tutor sternly in the face, replied: "Sir, I came here to have something beat into my brains, not into my knuckles." — Great Fortunes and How They Were Made

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