hand down
to leave to a later period or generation; bequeath
to pass (an outgrown garment) on from one member of a family to a younger one
law to announce or deliver (a verdict)
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How to use hand down in a sentence
Then, she puts her hand down his pants and whispers, “Meet me in the restroom in sixty seconds.”
Mad Men’s ‘The Strategy,’ With Peggy and Don’s Late-Night Powwow, is S7’s Best Episode (So Far) | Marlow Stern | May 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTip: slamming your hand down just before you land makes the fall sound way more dramatic.
Fake It Like Batman: Welcome to The Real Fight Club | Anna Brand | December 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn normal places you keep your hand on top of the stick and in the low places you slide your hand down into the hollow.
If so, how will a judge decide which of the prescribed punishments to hand down to Trivedi?
The Sedition Files: How an Indian Cartoonist Becomes a Criminal | Dilip D’Souza | September 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe detective said privately that he did not expect the grand jury to hand down an indictment.
Why Epilepsy, Not Henry Wachtel, Is to Blame for Teen’s Mother’s Death | Michael Daly | April 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
When I had read it, slowly, for his benefit, he brought his hand down smartly on one knee and nodded rapidly.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. ChambersSome baby must have put its hand down in the mud; but that's silly, of course.
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour | George A. WarrenHe laid the hand down again, with a groan, and then he 165 heard a voice.
The Range Boss | Charles Alden Seltzer"I want it, and I mean to have it" And he rose and dashed his huge hand down upon the table.
I stuck my hand down, and it was given a vicious bite by a white, pink-eyed ferret Paul was carrying there.
Tramping on Life | Harry Kemp
Other Idioms and Phrases with hand down
Bequeath to one's heirs, as in The silver and jewels have been handed down from generation to generation in that family. [Late 1600s]
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