in hand
Accessible at the present time, as in The company has very little cash in hand. [Late 1300s]
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How to use in hand in a sentence
Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement | Charlise Ferguson | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTStyle, she points out, has often come hand-in-hand with equality.
Look Who’s Wearing The Pants: Haute Butch’s Gender-Blending Style | Nina Strochlic | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost people wouldn't look twice at a “fat man” walking hand-in-hand with an attractive, skinny woman.
Plus-Size Model, Jennifer Maitland: Get Over the Word ‘Fat’ | Jennifer Maitland | May 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUnsurprisingly, support for these kinds of useless interventions often goes hand-in-hand with vaccine denial.
FDA Moves to Crack Down on Quack Autism ‘Cures’ | Russell Saunders | April 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUN officials say the looters often work hand-in-hand with rebel militias.
Suddenly, there was a tremendous uproar and excitement, and I saw a four-in-hand drive up.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands | George Francis TrainSide by side on the low sofa, two women, hand-in-hand, had been sobbing out their grief to one another.
The New Tenant | E. Phillips OppenheimHand-in-hand he and Rebecca visited the grave-yard, where slept the remains of her loved parents.
The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam | John FrostIt was unmistakably a symptom that something of his old passion for her had been revived; duty and desire ran hand-in-hand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas HardyThe couple and their waterman rowed away to the party they had left with the four-in-hand at their inn.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
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