first·hand

[furst-hand]
adverb
1.
from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
adjective
2.
of or pertaining to the first or original source.
3.
direct from the original source: firsthand knowledge of the riot.
Also, first-hand.


Origin:
1690–1700; first + hand

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first hand

see at first hand.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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First hand is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
Part of the reason is lack of first hand information so your post helps.
Would be fantastic to witness first hand if it were ever to be possible.
Its easy to talk about things you haven't experienced first hand or otherwise.
Unless you see it first hand you can not understand what this study means.
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