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in hand

Under one's control or authority, as in The police had the situation well in hand . [Early 1600s]
Accessible at the present time, as in The company has very little cash in hand . [Late 1300s]
In process, being settled, as in He was willing to give full attention to the matter in hand . [Late 1300s] Also see in one's hands .

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Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

Style, she points out, has often come hand-in-hand with equality.

Most people wouldn't look twice at a “fat man” walking hand-in-hand with an attractive, skinny woman.

Unsurprisingly, support for these kinds of useless interventions often goes hand-in-hand with vaccine denial.

UN officials say the looters often work hand-in-hand with rebel militias.

Suddenly, there was a tremendous uproar and excitement, and I saw a four-in-hand drive up.

Side by side on the low sofa, two women, hand-in-hand, had been sobbing out their grief to one another.

Hand-in-hand he and Rebecca visited the grave-yard, where slept the remains of her loved parents.

It was unmistakably a symptom that something of his old passion for her had been revived; duty and desire ran hand-in-hand.

The couple and their waterman rowed away to the party they had left with the four-in-hand at their inn.

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