hands up

Meaning

1. Oxford75% of films

   used by sb who is threatening people with a gun to tell them to raise both hands in the air

   Put your hands up! On your head! Do it!

2. Oxford10% of films

   used to tell a group of people to raise one hand in the air if they know the answer to a question, etc.

In the movies · 45

• Freeze! Put your hands up! Get them up!Ant-Man2015
• (IN ENGLISH) Hands up! KIRI: Spider.Avatar: The Way of Water2022
• Put your hands up! On your head! Do it!Blue Velvet1986
• Hands up. Hands up. Up.Enola Holmes2020
• Hands up, hands up!Aftersun2022
• Hands up. Hands up, kid.Creed2015
• Come on now Hands up Hands upCreed II2018
• Hands up. No.This Means War2012

Learn it in full scenes

• Blue Velvet1986
  • Sandy Tells Jeffrey About the Singer
  • Jeffrey Plans the Apartment Break-In
  • Sandy Tells Jeffrey Her Robin Dream
• Enola Holmes2020
  • Enola Confronts Her Brothers
  • Enola Decodes Her Mother's Message
  • Enola Hides on the Train
• Creed2015
  • Adonis Asks Rocky to Train Him
  • Adonis and Bianca's First Date
  • Rocky Agrees to Train Adonis

From the same entry

• all hands on deck
• at hand
• at the hands of
• be good with your hands
• bind hand and foot
• by hand
• fall into hands hands of
• first hand
• get your hands dirty
• hand in glove
• hand in hand

More idioms

• in a manner of speaking
• pick up the pieces
• go back a long way
• have a soft spot for
• in this day and age
• neither here nor there
• take a rain check
• less and less
• put to sleep
• the survival of the fittest
• it figures
• a last resort