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Hand Phrases

336 phrases and expressions related to "hand".

Phrases

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A few cards short of a full deck
A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat (Cadbury's advertising slogan)
A hands turn
A head for business and a body for sin
A healthy mind in a healthy body
A laurel and hearty handshake
A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
A slap on the wrist
All hands on deck
All hands to the pump
Arm candy
Arm in arm
As long as your arm
At first hand
Backhanded compliment
Bite your hand off
Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
Blood on your hands
Blue collar worker
Body and soul
Body bag
Body blow
Body building
Body heat
Body language
Body mass index
Body of evidence
Body of opinion
Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
Body politic
Body popping
Body snatcher
Body surfing
Bound hand and foot
Business at hand
Cack handed
Cap in hand
Cash in hand
Caught red-handed
Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
Caught with your hand in the till
Chance your arm
Change hands
Clap him in irons
Cold hands warm heart
Come out with your hands up
Company man (a worker especially loyal to the employer he works for)
Condemned out of hand
Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
Cost an arm and a leg
Couldn't lay a glove on me
Cross my palm with silver
Dab hand at
Deck of cards
Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Eat out of someone's hand
Empty handed
Even handed
Extend the hand of friendship
Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
Face palm moment
Fickle finger of fate
Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
Finger food
Finger in many pies
Fish and finger pie (Beatles song lyric)
Fits like a glove
Five by five
Fold your hand
Force his hand
Free hand
Fruiting body
Get out of hand
Get the upper hand
Get your hands dirty
Gimme, five
Give a hand
Give one's right arm for
Glove money
Go cap in hand
Go to hell in a handbasket
Golden handshake
Golden parachute
Good hands
Got to hand it to you
Grease your palm
Hand a line
Hand in glove
Hand in hand
Hand in your notice
Hand it on a plate
Hand it over
Hand job
Hand me down
Hand me downs
Hand over
Hand over fist
Hand picked
Hand to mouth
Hand's turn
Hand-held device
Hand-to-gland combat (slang term for masturbation)
Handbags at ten paces
Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
Hands across the sea
Hands free
Hands on
Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
Hands up
Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands down if you don't (Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan)
Hat in hand
Have a hand in
Have clean hands
Have it in hand
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
Healing hands
Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
Heavenly body
Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
Heavy handed
Helping hand
High five
High handed
Hold all the cards
Hold hands
Holding your cards close to your chest
Home worker
House of cards
I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands
In a world full surrounded by Windows, we're handing out rocks (BeOS Radio advertising slogan)
In safe hands
In the hands of the receiver
In the palm of your hand
Iron fist in velvet glove
It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
It's what your right arm's for (Courage Beer advertising slogan)
Jive talk
Jive talkin' (Bee Gees song)
Join hands
Kack handed
Keep body and soul together
Keep your finger on the pulse
Keep your hand in
Keep your hands to yourself
Know like the back of your hand
Knuckle down to
Knuckle head
Knuckle sandwich
Knuckle under
Laser Rocket Arm (Nickname of Peyton Manning)
Lay a finger on
Lay hands on
Lay your cards on the table
Left-handed compliment
Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
Lend a helping hand
Let's shake hands on it
Little Hands of Stone (Nickname of Michael Carbajal)
Look ma, no hands!
Look, no hands
Lose hands down
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love
M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
Many hands make light work
Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
Mob handed
My hands are tied
Near the knuckle
Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger! (Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan)
Off hand
Off your hands
On the cards
On the one hand
On the other hand
One hand tied behind your back
One hand washes the other
One off the wrist
Over my dead body
Palm Sunday
Palm off
Pay an arm and a leg
Play your cards right
Point the finger
Pull your finger out
Put it on the long finger
Put your cards on the table
Put your finger on it
Put your finger on the button
Put your hand in your pocket
Put your hand to the plough
Put your hands together
Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
Right hand man
Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
Rule of thumb
Safe pair of hands
Shot in the arm
Show of hands
Show your hand
Sit on your hands
Sleight of hand
Smack on the wrist
Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
Sticks out like a sore thumb
Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
Strengthen your hand
Strong in the arm and thick in the head
Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
Take the law into your own hands
Take your hand in marriage
Take your life in your hands
Talk to the hand
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (Sherlock Holmes story)
The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
The Glove (Nickname of Gary Payton)
The Man With The Golden Arm (Frank Sinatra movie)
The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
The Palm Springs Of Washington (Nickname of Yakima Washington)
The answer is at hand
The body is still warm
The body of evidence
The hand is quicker than the eye
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
The long arm of the law
The matter in hand
The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
The moving finger writes
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on (from a poem by Fitzgerald)
The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
Thumb a ride
Thumb lashing
Thumb your nose
Time on your hands
Try your hand
Twist around your little finger
Twist your arm
Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones song)
Under the thumb
Upper hand
Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
Wash your hands of it
What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
Whip hand
White knuckle ride
Who's finger do you want on the trigger?
Winning hands down
Wrapped around your little finger
Wring one's hands
Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
You're in good hands (Allstate Insurance advertising slogan)

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
At first hand
Bite your hand off
Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
Bound hand and foot
Business at hand
Cap in hand
Cash in hand
Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
Caught with your hand in the till
Condemned out of hand
Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
Dab hand at
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Eat out of someone's hand
Extend the hand of friendship
Fold your hand
Force his hand
Free hand
Get out of hand
Get the upper hand
Give a hand
Go cap in hand
Got to hand it to you
Hand a line
Hand in glove
Hand in hand
Hand in your notice
Hand it on a plate
Hand it over
Hand job
Hand me down
Hand me downs
Hand over
Hand over fist
Hand picked
Hand to mouth
Hand's turn
Hat in hand
Have a hand in
Have it in hand
Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
Helping hand
I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
In the palm of your hand
Keep your hand in
Know like the back of your hand
Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
Lend a helping hand
M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
Off hand
On the one hand
On the other hand
One hand tied behind your back
One hand washes the other
Put your hand in your pocket
Put your hand to the plough
Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
Right hand man
Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
Show your hand
Sleight of hand
Strengthen your hand
Take your hand in marriage
Talk to the hand
The answer is at hand
The hand is quicker than the eye
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
The matter in hand
The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
Try your hand
Upper hand
What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
Whip hand

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