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HAND IN HAND
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Clasping each other's hands
Example:
they walked hand in hand
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Together
Example:
doctors and nurses work hand in hand to save lives
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Context examples:
Her bright calm face lighted up with pleasure as she went to meet him, and as they came in, hand in hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And so we dodged about the deck, hand in hand, like a couple of children chased by a wicked ogre, till Wolf Larsen, evidently in disgust, left the deck for the cabin.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Is this a tongue to be used within the walls of an old and well-famed monastery? But grace and learning have ever gone hand in hand, and when one is lost it is needless to look for the other.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hand in hand with reading, he had developed the habit of making notes, and so copiously did he make them that there would have been no existence for him in the confined quarters had he not rigged several clothes-lines across the room on which the notes were hung.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
What happiness (I thought) if we were married, and were going away anywhere to live among the trees and in the fields, never growing older, never growing wiser, children ever, rambling hand in hand through sunshine and among flowery meadows, laying down our heads on moss at night, in a sweet sleep of purity and peace, and buried by the birds when we were dead!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
