Trope Workshop:Dusting Off Your Hands

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Just taking care of business.

When a character gets in a scuffle with another character and after doing something like winning a fight or kicking them out of the premises of a club or something they slap their hands past one another up and down.

This is their way of saying "That takes care of that!", bonus points if there's visible dust from their hands.

Examples of Dusting Off Your Hands include:

Anime and Manga

• In Pokémon, in the episode "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion," Team Rocket kidnaps Duplica's Ditto and Jesse orders it to transform into a boy in a picture. The first 2 times Ditto fails, James and Meowth laugh at the whole ordeal causing Jesse to beat them up and she dusts her hands off afterwards.

Film

• In Ruthless People Barbara affectionately dusts her hands after knocking her Jerkass treacherous husband off a pier for trying to have her murdered to receive her inheritance.
• In Silent Night, Deadly Night in the 2nd film a soon to be unfortunately murdered man dusts his hands after taking out the trash before Richard, armed with a stolen police revolver, shouts "Garbage day!" before shooting him dead.

Video Games

• In Fallout 3, Moira Brown is shown to dust her hands off a lot when the player enters her shop in Megaton.

Web Animation

• In Helluva Boss, Blitzo dusts his hands off after his team manages to murder a bunch of humans to try and outdo the number of humans Verosika's team manages to seduce. Turns out the competition was just beginning when Verosika runs a pop concert!
• In Hazbin Hotel, in the pilot Charlie picks up various lewd magazines some demon sinners are holding and throws them into a fiery pit dusting her hands off afterwards in her song "Inside of Every Demon is a Rainbow".

Western Animation

• In Word Girl, Dr. Two Brains zaps Miss Power with a blaster and, thinking he took care of her, walks off dusting his hands. Turns out he didn't!