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📖 Определения и значения для слова hand

📒 the part of the body at the end of the arm, including the fingers and thumb

  • Ian placed a hand on her shoulder.
  • Keep both hands on the steering wheel at all times.
  • She had a large diamond on the ring finger of her left hand.

📒 using the hand or number of hands mentioned

  • a one-handed catch
  • left-handed scissors (= intended to be held in your left hand)

📒 help in doing something

  • The neighbours are always willing to lend a hand.
  • hand with something Let me give you a hand with those bags (= help you to carry them).
  • Do you need a hand with those invoices?

📒 the part or role that somebody/something plays in a particular situation; somebody’s influence in a situation

  • Early reports suggest the hand of rebel forces in the bombings.
  • Several of his colleagues had a hand in his downfall.
  • This appointment was an attempt to strengthen her hand in policy discussions.

📒 a part of a clock or watch that points to the numbers

📒 a person who does physical work on a farm or in a factory

  • The farmer would bring in hired hands to help him harvest the crop.

📒 a sailor on a ship

  • All hands on deck!

📒 by a person rather than a machine

  • hand-painted pottery
  • hand-knitted
  • This item should be hand-washed.

📒 a set of playing cards given to one player in a game

  • to be dealt a good/bad hand
  • (figurative) She felt that life had dealt her a bad hand.

📒 one stage of a game of cards

  • I'll have to leave after this hand.
  • Who dealt the last hand?

📒 a particular style of writing

📒 a unit for measuring the height of a horse, equal to 4 inches or 10.16 centimetres

📒 everyone helps or must help, especially in a difficult situation

  • There are 30 people coming to dinner tonight, so it's all hands on deck.

📒 close to you in time or distance

  • Help was at hand.
  • The property is ideally located with all local amenities close at hand.

📒 if you experience something at the hands of somebody, they are the cause of it

  • They suffered years of repression at the hands of the old regime.

📒 to show skill at making or doing things with your hands

📒 to tie somebody’s hands and feet together so that they cannot move or escape

📒 to prevent somebody from doing what they want by creating rules, limits, etc.

📒 it is better to keep something that you already have than to risk losing it by trying to get much more

📒 to harm somebody who has helped you or supported you

📒 by a person rather than a machine

  • The fabric was painted by hand.
  • Delicate clothes should be washed by hand.
  • We can apply the power of computational tools in solving mathematical problems that cannot be solved by hand.

📒 if a letter is delivered by hand, it is delivered by the person who wrote it, or somebody who is sent by them, rather than by post

📒 if you pay for goods and services cash in hand, you pay in cash, especially so that the person being paid can avoid paying tax on the amount

  • a cash-in-hand payment of £20

📒 to pass to a different owner

  • The house has changed hands several times.

📒 near; in a place where somebody/something can be reached easily

  • There are good cafes and a restaurant close at hand.

📒 an influence that controls or limits something

  • We need to free business from the dead hand of bureaucracy.

📒 people who do not have enough to do often start to do wrong

  • She blamed the crimes on the local jobless teenagers. ‘The devil makes work for idle hands,’ she would say.

📒 to trust somebody and be willing to do what they say

  • She'll have them eating out of her hand in no time.

📒 to become controlled by somebody

  • The town fell into enemy hands.
  • We don't want this document falling into the wrong hands.
  • After the war, the hotel fell into the hands of an American consortium.

📒 strong control or discipline

  • Those children need a firm hand to make them behave.

📒 by experiencing, seeing, etc. something yourself rather than being told about it by somebody else

  • The President visited the area to see the devastation at first hand.

📒 to bring or hold your hands together

  • She kept her hands folded in her lap.

📒 to make somebody do something that they do not want to do or make them do it sooner than they had intended

  • They decided to strike to force the management’s hand.

📒 to get an advantage over somebody so that you are in control of a particular situation

📒 to do physical work

  • He's not frightened of getting his hands dirty.

📒 to get, have, etc. the opportunity to do what you want to do and to make your own decisions

  • I was given a free hand in designing the syllabus.

📒 to show your approval of somebody by clapping your hands; to be applauded in this way

  • Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give a big hand to our special guests tonight.

📒 to help somebody

📒 to ask somebody for something, especially money, in a very polite way that makes you seem less important

  • There’s no way he’ll go cap in hand to his brother.

📒 permission to marry somebody, especially a woman

  • He asked the general for his daughter's hand in marriage.

📒 working closely with somebody, especially in a secret and/or illegal way

📒 if two people are hand in hand, they are holding each other’s hand

  • They walked through the park hand in hand.

📒 if two things go hand in hand, they are closely connected and one thing causes the other

  • Poverty and poor health often go hand in hand.

📒 easily and without any doubt

  • They won hands down.
  • It is hands down the best movie this year.

📒 used to tell somebody not to touch something/somebody

  • Get your hands off my wife!
  • Hey, hands off! That's my drink!
  • She warned her brother to keep his hands off her bag.

📒 used to tell a group of people to raise one hand in the air if they know the answer to a question, etc.

  • Hands up all those who want to go swimming.

📒 used by somebody who is threatening people with a gun to tell them to raise both hands in the air

📒 to be responsible for somebody’s death

  • a dictator with the blood of thousands on his hands

📒 to be very busy or too busy to do something else

  • She certainly has her hands full with four kids in the house.

📒 to be unable to do what you want to do because of rules, promises, etc.

  • I really wish I could help but my hands are tied.

📒 to have complete control or influence over somebody

  • Even before he plays a note, he has the audience in the palm of his hand.

📒 to have nothing to do or not be busy

📒 to be in a position where you have power or control over somebody/something

  • She had the whip hand and it was useless to resist.

📒 a way of doing something or of treating people that is much stronger and less sensitive than it needs to be

  • the heavy hand of management

📒 to give somebody support in a difficult situation

  • Do you want me to come along and hold your hand?

📒 to admit that you have made a mistake or are responsible for something bad

  • I have to hold my hands up and admit that some of the problems have been all my own fault.
  • The solicitor confirmed that his clients were holding their hands up to the offences.

📒 being taken care of or dealt with by somebody that you think you can rely on

  • Can I leave these queries in your capable hands?
  • He retired feeling confident that his company was in safe hands.

📒 if you have time or money in hand, it is left and available to be used

  • We managed to redecorate the house and still have some savings in hand.
  • She completed the first part of the exam with over an hour in hand.

📒 if you have a particular situation in hand, you are in control of it

  • Don’t worry about the travel arrangements—everything is in hand.

📒 the job, question, etc. in hand is the one that you are dealing with

  • Please confine your comments to the topic in hand.

📒 if somebody works a week, month, etc. in hand, they are paid for the work a week, etc. after they have completed it

📒 being taken care of or controlled by somebody

  • The matter is now in the hands of my lawyer.
  • At that time, the castle was in enemy hands.

📒 being taken care of well by somebody

  • I've left the kids in safe hands—with my parents.
  • Their problem was in the safe hands of the experts.

📒 if you use the words an iron fist/hand when describing the way that somebody behaves, you mean that they treat people severely. This treatment may be hidden behind a kind appearance (the velvet glove).

  • They promised that the army would strike with an iron fist at any resistance.
  • The iron hand in the velvet glove approach seems to work best with this age group.

📒 used to say that you are too busy to do anything else

📒 if two people join hands, they hold each other’s hands

📒 to work together in doing something

  • Education has been reluctant to join hands with business.

📒 to occasionally do something that you used to do a lot so that you do not lose your skill at it

  • She retired last year but still teaches the odd class to keep her hand in.

📒 to be very familiar with somebody/something

  • This is where I grew up. I know this area like the back of my hand.

📒 to catch somebody that you are annoyed with

  • Wait till I get my hands on him!

📒 to find or get something

  • I know their address is here somewhere, but I can't lay my hands on it right now.
  • I desperately need to get my hands on some money by Monday.

📒 to spend all the money you earn on basic needs such as food without being able to save any money

📒 to make/lose money very fast and in large quantities

📒 used to say that a job is made easier if a lot of people help

📒 to do no work

  • She hasn't done a hand's turn all week.

📒 to do nothing to help somebody

  • The children never lift a finger to help around the house.

📒 to hold out your hand for somebody to shake

📒 no longer your responsibility

📒 on both/all sides; in both/all directions

  • Mist curled from the water on either hand.

📒 available, especially to help

  • The emergency services were on hand with medical advice.

📒 if you have somebody/something on your hands, you are responsible for or have to deal with them/it

  • Let me take care of the invitations—you've enough on your hands with the caterers.
  • They’ll have a fight on their hands if they want to close down the school.

📒 used to introduce different points of view, ideas, etc., especially when they are opposites

  • On the one hand they'd love to have kids, but on the other, they don't want to give up their freedom.
  • This survey highlights a number of differences in the way that teenage boys and girls in the UK spend their free time.
  • One of the main differences between the girls and the boys who took part in the research was the way in which they use the internet.

📒 difficult or impossible to control

  • Unemployment is getting out of hand.

📒 if you reject, etc. something out of hand, you do so immediately without thinking about it fully or listening to other people’s arguments

  • All our suggestions were dismissed out of hand.

📒 no longer your responsibility

  • I'm afraid the matter is now out of my hands.

📒 to fail to achieve success by judging your position to be stronger than it really is

📒 a person who can do, or is doing, a job

  • We need an extra pair of hands if we're going to finish on time.

📒 to do exactly what an enemy, opponent, etc. wants so that they gain the advantage in a particular situation

  • If we get the police involved, we'll be playing right into the protesters' hands.

📒 to spend money or give it to somebody

  • I've heard he doesn't like putting his hand in his pocket.

📒 easily controlled or influenced by another person

  • She'll persuade him. He's like putty in her hands.

📒 to hit or threaten to hit somebody

📒 a person that you can trust to do a job well

  • Colleagues regard him as a safe pair of hands.

📒 by being told about something by somebody else who has seen it or heard about it, not by experiencing, seeing, etc. it yourself

  • I'm fed up of hearing about these decisions third hand!

📒 to make your plans or intentions known

📒 a way of voting for or against something in which people raise their hands to vote

  • The vote was passed by a show of hands.
  • Let’s have a show of hands. Who’s in favour of the proposal?

📒 to stop yourself from doing something; to prevent you from doing something

  • It was prudence, not logic, that stayed his hand.

📒 to make yourself do something that you are afraid of

  • Taking her courage in both hands, she opened the door and walked in.

📒 to deal with somebody in a strict way in order to improve their behaviour

📒 to deal with a particular situation yourself because you are not happy with the way that others are dealing with it

📒 to do something illegal in order to punish somebody for doing something wrong, instead of letting the police deal with them

  • After a series of burglaries in the area, the police are worried that residents might take the law into their own hands.
  • When police failed to arrest the suspect, local people took the law into their own hands and beat him up.

📒 to risk being killed

  • You take your life in your hands just crossing the road here.

📒 to stop doing something or taking part in something, especially because you are not successful

📒 to raise both hands in the air to show that you are feeling annoyed or upset about something

  • We threw up our hands in despair at the scale of the problem.

📒 that you can reach or get easily

  • I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to hand.
  • Keep a pen and paper to hand for details of this week’s competition.

📒 to do something such as an activity or a sport for the first time

📒 to start doing something or be able to do something, especially when you do it well

  • Jim can turn his hand to most jobs around the house.

📒 to take care of somebody’s needs so well that they do not have to do anything for themselves

  • He seems to expect me to wait on him hand and foot.

📒 to refuse to be responsible for or involved with somebody/something

  • When her son was arrested again she washed her hands of him.
  • I’ve washed my hands of the whole sordid business.

📒 to win something very easily

📒 to press somebody’s hand very hard when you shake hands

📒 to hold your hands together, and twist and press them together in a way that shows you are anxious or upset, especially when you cannot change the situation

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