He should be able to spare £5,000 out of his golden handshake.

Go on then, tell us: what's the size of the golden handshake he walks off with?

And the reward for dismissal is a golden handshake of several years' pay.

Boeing has long followed the practice of giving its top employees entering Government a "golden handshake."

The bank's golden handshakes average $200,000, and as much as $400,000 for some at the more senior level.

The codes were going to cost the dean a very large golden handshake.

Another report says he turned down a similar "golden handshake" extended by the two Governments.

"In the past they sent them off with a golden handshake," he said.

The guilty parties have gone too, either promoted or sent away with a golden handshake.

- She's set up a new company with her golden handshake.