lift a hand against

Idioms  

1. see raise a hand against.

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Example Sentences

And he had said it and meant it: “If I lift a hand against you, friend, may God strike me dead.”

From Literature

Only two years before he had quelled Rochelle; only a few months before he had crushed the great insurrection in Languedoc: and though the south, stripped of its old privileges, still seethed with discontent, no one in this year 1630 dared lift a hand against him--openly, at any rate.

From Project Gutenberg

The prince, who, after I had succeeded in calming his father, gave me an account of what had happened, told me that it was wholly out of regard to me, as Thompson was my father, that his life had been spared, for that if any one of the tribe should dare to lift a hand against him in anger, he would most certainly be put to death.

From Project Gutenberg

"Sir Drost," said an old horseman, as they rode out of the still slumbering town, amid its ruins and deserted sites, "was it then your own order that we might not stop any one who would out of the castle; and that none, under pain of death, might lift a hand against the high-born junker, if he was on the spot?"

From Project Gutenberg

Obviously distressed, the recently elected Chief Rabbi of the nation's Sephardim, Mordechai Eliahu, pleaded that Jewish factions "must not exploit each other," and a spokesman for the new Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Avraham Shapiro, said, "It is forbidden for one Jew to lift a hand against another Jew."

From Time Magazine Archive