from hand to hand
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A group of volunteers passes buckets of rubble from hand to hand in long lines.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Children passing pictures from hand to hand, looking at them, getting ideas about art.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023
"We have the most lethal weapon there is, that nobody talks about, which is the telephone, so on social media networks very easily things pass from hand to hand over TikTok, etc," he said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 14, 2023
Ukrainians say they’ve heard from Russian soldiers already on the battlefield who learned of the hotline by word-of-mouth or from a scrawled-on slip of paper passed from hand to hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
But he felt unwelcome here, his son stood, moving the pencil sharpener from hand to hand, waiting.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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