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View synonyms for hand over fist

hand over fist



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Idioms and Phrases

Rapidly, at a tremendous rate, as in He's making money hand over fist . This expression is derived from the nautical hand over hand , describing how a sailor climbed a rope. [First half of 1800s]
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Example Sentences

With $400 a day coming in, and a very small outgo for expenses, the chums were making money hand over fist.

He's took 'em lucky this year, and he's making money hand over fist.'

Now, since cattle had risen and meat and all to such a price, he was making money hand over fist.

So you see wed be apt to come up on those fellows hand over fist.

He'd run into some hard luck, they gave him a job, and he was making money hand over fist.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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