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helping hand
noun
- aid; assistance:
to give the destitute a helping hand.
helping hand
noun
- assistance
many people lent a helping hand in making arrangements for the party
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Word History and Origins
Origin of helping hand1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
The Sunni Kurds, who tend to be secular in their politics, have offered them a helping hand in recent years.
I just wonder if a single one of them got a helping hand from staffers for McConnell or Paul.
As the Middletons clearly know, you have to give it a little helping hand.
Lisa considers me a traitor to the very essence of America, providing a helping hand to those in genuine need.
Facing a regime that bombards them from above, the Syrian rebels want the West to lend a helping hand.
Then, perhaps, I shall commit the indiscretion of asking you to give me a helping hand.
Was it not our duty to lend a helping hand to encourage, to cheer, and to sustain them in their noble and patriotic efforts?
He was unselfish in his ordinary dealings, and always ready to lend a helping hand to those about him.
Through them he lifted himself out of the slough of despond, and he sought to extend a helping hand to others.
Surely he was justified in asking for a helping hand towards some means of gaining his own livelihood!
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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