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hand and foot

Idioms  
  1. see bound hand and foot; wait on someone hand and foot.


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Roughly 2,000 years old, the bronze woman is damaged: the absence of her shorn-off right hand and foot is glaring.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2024

Toxic Shock is a 30-meter-long crack climb, in which climbers follow a crack in the rock rather than using protruding hand and foot holds.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Brunson missed 10 games down the stretch with hand and foot injuries and Randle sat out with a sprained ankle.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023

Robinson comes in for fellow seamer Jamie Overton, who has been ruled out with hand and foot injuries sustained playing for Surrey.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2022

I wondered if Russell Quitman would ever walk again or if Ada Taylor had sentenced herself to a life of sitting around and waiting on him hand and foot.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

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