lend a hand
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Mike Holmes, the Canadian host of a reality TV home-improvement show, once even offered to lend a hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He added the response to a call-out for volunteers to lend a hand had been good.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Members of the Sunrise Church in Rialto, who had shown up to lend a hand, were carrying out bucket after bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
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.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
She scolded José Arcadio Segundo as if he were a child and insisted that he take a bath and shave and lend a hand in fixing up the house.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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