Pink-handed

adj, adv

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Adjective
  1. 1
    White-collar; working at a desk job as opposed to manual labor.

    "I know the pink-handed types who get jobs like this interviewer's got, and I know what he's trying to do to me."

  2. 2
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, handed.: having hands that are pink.

    "Squat and gnome-like it looked, silhouetted against the dying fire in the western sky; an odd, elfin-eared, pink-handed, hunchbacked manikin with a tail."

Adverb
  1. 1
    With clear evidence of guilt, red-handed.

    "Several major ISPs have been caught red-handed (or perhaps pink-handed) making agreements with known spammers."

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"I know the pink-handed types who get jobs like this interviewer's got, and I know what he's trying to do to me."

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