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

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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Romero lost all sense of time as she sorted through thousands of spare parts with locals who were eager to lend a hand.

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William is set to visit a surplus food distribution charity — Surplus to Supper — in Surrey, southwest of London, where he will lend a hand in the kitchen and help load prepared meals into delivery vans.

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