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Hands
1/ hænz /
noun
- HandsTerence David1941MBritishTHEATRE: theatre director Terence David, known as Terry. born 1941, British theatre director: chief executive and artistic director (1986–91) of the Royal Shakespeare Company
hands
2/ hændz /
plural noun
- power or keeping
your welfare is in his hands
- Also calledhandling soccer the infringement of touching the ball with any part of the hand or arm
- change handschange hands to pass from the possession of one person or group to another
- clean handsclean hands freedom from guilt
- hands downhands down without effort; easily
- hands offhands off do not touch or interfere
- hands up!hands up! raise the hands above the level of the shoulders, an order usually given by an armed robber to a victim, etc
- have one's hands fullhave one's hands full
- to be completely occupied
- to be beset with problems
- have one's hands tiedhave one's hands tied to be wholly unable to act
- in good handsin good hands in protective care
- See joinjoin handsjoin hands See join
- lay hands onlay hands onlay hands upon
- to seize or get possession of
- to beat up; assault
- to find
I just can't lay my hands on it anywhere
- Christianity to confirm or ordain by the imposition of hands
- off one's handsoff one's hands for which one is no longer responsible
- on one's handson one's hands
- for which one is responsible
I've got too much on my hands to help
- to spare
time on my hands
- out of one's handsout of one's hands no longer one's responsibility
- throw up one's handsthrow up one's hands to give up in despair
- wash one's hands ofwash one's hands of to have nothing more to do with
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“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Hands-down the best music video in years—and one of the best ever.
With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
He burst into a loud laugh, clapped his hands, and danced before the delighted babe.
Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
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