from hand to hand
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"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 painting passed from hand to hand, with Liber’s co-worker’s brother’s friend agreeing to deliver it.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2022
From one character to the next, passing from hand to hand, is the ancestral trail itself, creased into the tongues, palms, and papers of women who cannot forget.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022
Three motions, if you counted changing the razor from hand to hand.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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