raise a hand against

Idioms  

1. Also, lift one's hand against. Threaten to hit or actually hit, as in She's never raised a hand against the children. [First half of 1500s]

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raise a hand against

Cried Reagan: "It is time to start a crash military buildup, to make us so strong that no one will ever again raise a hand against the U.S."

From Time Magazine Archive

You could not raise a hand against one come to this.

From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington

Genoa," says the navigator, "hath proved but a stern mother to me: and though nought could induce me to raise a hand against her, she hath no longer any claim on my services....

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

The man is not, nor shall be born, who shall raise a hand against Telemachus, so long as I live upon the earth.

From The Story of the Odyssey by Homer

Will you dare to raise a hand against a Caylus?

From The House of the Wolf; a romance by Stanley John Weyman