Many hands make light work

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Large tasks become small when divided among several people.

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How to use Many hands make light work in a sentence

“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
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If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
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Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?
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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
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And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
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Many of them were delicious in the role; one of them was the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm.
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With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
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Only in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
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Other Idioms and Phrases with Many hands make light work

many hands make light work

More helpers make a task easier, as in We need a few more volunteers to move the furniture—many hands make light work, you know. This proverb was first recorded in English in the early 1300s in a knightly romance known as Sir Bevis of Hampton. It appeared in practically all proverb collections from 1546 on. For the converse, see too many cooks spoil the broth.