lend a hand

1. Also, lend a helping hand. Be of assistance, as in Can you lend them a hand with putting up the flag, or Peter is always willing to lend a helping hand around the house. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

At Club Gay Gardens’ September gathering, attendees ranged in age and botanical savvy, with some boasting degrees in horticulture and others just happy to lend a hand.

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Next to Bordet was Nour-Eddine Skiker, head of the "Jalons pour la paix" association, some of whose volunteers came with a local youth council group to lend a hand.

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He wanted to lend a hand as she underwent treatment.

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How could an assassination happen in a place where the official motto is “Family City USA”? Where people make a point to lend a hand to strangers and where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has more places of worship than the city has interstate exits?

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Almost all lend a hand on an ongoing basis, whether contributing to savings accounts, setting up trusts or defraying the costs of college tuition, medical bills and other expenses.

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