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
"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
The most magical thing is the way the books were passed from hand to hand amongst kids, and adults sort of didn’t know anything about it.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2021
They gather these pieces in peach baskets that they pass from hand to hand, not minding their torn gloves, torn skin.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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