from hand to hand

1. see hand to hand.

Example Sentences

The main meal takes place in the center of the day, eating happens in the same room where the food has been cooked, and food passes from hand to hand, from field to basket to kitchen table, with each person slicing off a chunk from the communal loaf.

From Slate

Passed from hand to hand, it served as a potent white supremacist recruitment tool and inspired Timothy McVeigh to kill 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

From Slate

Fighting from hand to hand: from position to position; not knowing where the next attack would come; but the steady moving forward until we cleared the entire woods.”

From Literature

In the classroom-turned-cafeteria, survivors passed one of the volunteer’s cellphones from hand to hand across three long dining tables.

From Seattle Times

Then, packages pass carefully from hand to hand, delivered by taxi or via “drops” with a detailed time, place and description of the contact.

From Seattle Times