Handcuff Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
• At first hand
• Ball and chain
• 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
• Chain gang
• Chain letter
• Chain of command
• Chain of fools (Aretha Franklin song)
• Chain reaction
• Chain smoker
• Chain smoking
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Dab hand at
• Daisy chain
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Don't yank my chain
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Fold your hand
• Food chain
• Force his hand
• Free hand
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Give a hand
• Go cap in hand
• Golden handcuffs
• 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
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• 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
• Off the cuff
• 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)
• Secure in the knowledge
• 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 old ball and chain
• 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