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hand on
verb
- tr, adverb to pass to the next in a succession
Idioms and Phrases
Turn over to another, as in When you've read it, please hand it on to Sam . This term can also be used in the sense of “bequeath” (see hand down , def. 1). [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
“I think I’m going to puke,” he said, hand on his stomach.
Tate denies strangling Sienna, and that she lost consciousness due to strangulation, adding that he "may have put a hand on her neck but there was no restriction of her breathing".
It was while preparing homemade ravioli, using a wine glass to stamp out the dough, that Scheffler cut his hand on Christmas Day.
He has played well this year despite a minor hand injury — a wine glass broke in his hand on Christmas Day.
“The president has an opportunity to call a 90-day time out, negotiate and resolve unfair asymmetric tariff deals, and induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country,” Ackman wrote on X. “If, on the other hand, on April 9th we launch economic nuclear war on every country in the world, business investment will grind to a halt, consumers will close their wallets and pocket books, and we will severely damage our reputation with the rest of the world that will take years and potentially decades to rehabilitate.”
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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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