Or just clench your jaw and hang on with white knuckles in terrified silence.

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By contrast, people who are defensive or angry may protectively fold their arms across their chest, clench their hands into a fist or tightly grip their arm or wrist.

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This action was to clench either their right or their left hand into a fist.

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