Your hands are the parts of your body at the end of your arms. Each hand has four fingers and a thumb.

The hand of someone or something is their influence in an event or situation.

If you say that something is in a particular person's hands, you mean that they are taking care of it, own it, or are responsible for it.

If you ask someone for a hand with something, you are asking them to help you in what you are doing.

If someone asks an audience to give someone a hand, they are asking the audience to clap loudly, usually before or after that person performs.

In a game of cards, your hand is the set of cards that you are holding in your hand at a particular time or the cards that are dealt to you at the beginning of the game.

The hands of a clock or watch are the thin pieces of metal or plastic that indicate what time it is.

If you hand back something that you have borrowed or taken from someone, you return it to them.

If you hand down something such as knowledge, a possession, or a skill, you give or leave it to people who belong to a younger generation.

If you hand in something such as homework or something that you have found, you give it to a teacher, police officer, or other person in authority.

If you hand in your notice or resignation, you tell your employer, in speech or in writing, that you no longer wish to work there.

If you hand something on, you give it or transfer it to another person, often someone who replaces you.

If you hand things out to people, you give one or more to each person in a group.

When people in authority hand out something such as advice or permission to do something, they give it.

If you hand something over to someone, you give them the responsibility for dealing with a particular situation or problem.

If you hand over to someone or hand something over to them, you give them the responsibility for dealing with a particular situation or problem.

If something is at hand, near at hand, or close at hand, it is very near in place or time.

If someone experiences a particular kind of treatment, especially unpleasant treatment, at the hands of a person or organization, they receive it from them.

If you do something by hand, you do it using your hands rather than a machine.

When something changes hands, its ownership changes, usually because it is sold to someone else.

If you have your hands full with something, you are very busy because of it.

If someone gives you a free hand, they give you the freedom to use your own judgment and to do exactly as you wish.

If you get your hands on something or lay your hands on something, you manage to find it or obtain it, usually after some difficulty.

If two people are hand in hand, they are holding each other's nearest hand, usually while they are walking or sitting together. People often do this to show their affection for each other.

If two things go hand in hand, they are closely connected and cannot be considered separately from each other.

If you have a hand in something such as an event or activity, you are involved in it.

If two people are holding hands, they are holding each other's nearest hand, usually while they are walking or sitting together. People often do this to show their affection for each other.

The job or problem in hand is the job or problem that you are dealing with at the moment.

If a situation is in hand, it is under control.

If you lend someone a hand, you help them.

If someone lives hand to mouth or lives from hand to mouth, they have hardly enough food or money to live on.

If you tell someone to keep their hands off something or to take their hands off it, you are telling them in a slightly aggressive way not to touch it or interfere with it.

If you do not know something off hand, you do not know it without having to ask someone else or look it up in a book.

If you have a problem or responsibility on your hands, you have to deal with it. If it is off your hands, you no longer have to deal with it.

If someone or something is on hand, they are near and able to be used if they are needed.

You use on the one hand to introduce the first of two contrasting points, facts, or ways of looking at something. It is always followed later by 'on the other hand' or 'on the other'.

You use on the other hand to introduce the second of two contrasting points, facts, or ways of looking at something.

If a person or a situation gets out of hand, you are no longer able to control them.

If you dismiss or reject something out of hand, you do so immediately and do not consider believing or accepting it.

If you take something or someone in hand, you take control or responsibility over them, especially in order to improve them.

If you say that your hands are tied, you mean that something is preventing you from acting in the way that you want to.

If you try your hand at an activity, you attempt to do it, usually for the first time.

If you turn your hand to something such as a practical activity, you learn about it and do it for the first time.

If you wash your hands of someone or something, you refuse to be involved with them any more or to take responsibility for them.

If you win hands down, you win very easily.

If you hand something to someone, you pass it to them.