Phraseologism is what makes a language special, mysterious and difficult for foreigners. Even if its main component is a banal part of the body (for example, a hand).
The lexical meaning
Without the literal meaning of a noun, of course, you can’t get anywhere.
- First of all, it is a part of the body, more precisely the limb, of a person or a primate from the shoulder to the fingertips.
- A part of an object or object, somewhat reminiscent of a human hand.
- The manner of writing, a work style different from others.
- Influential, strong, wealthy patron.
What is phraseology
Phraseologism (with the word "hand", for example) is a stable indivisible expression that makes speech flowery, diverse, interesting and colorful. To understand this unit of speech thoroughly and correctly to catch all the nuances of the context is possible only to a person who has lived in this language environment for his whole life or for many years.
TOP 10 phraseological units with the word "hand"
During the day, without noticing it, we use hundreds of stable expressions. Phraseologisms with the word "hand" occupy not the last place among them.
Here are the most used and popular of them:
- Hand feed - very close, in sight.
- From third parties - from a stranger, through an intermediary.
- Take over - appropriate without demand by means of cunning or deception, steal.
- Hand washes - about people who have entered into a conspiracy or know something bad about each other and cover each other; also about mutually beneficial cooperation.
- Jack of all trades - a versatile craftsman who knows how to do a lot, and to do it efficiently.
- Raise your hand - hit, encroach, denote your right (in a negative meaning).
- To give a hand - to take part, to render assistance.
- Shaggy paw is an influential, omnipotent or wealthy patron.
- In haste - quickly, without trying, tyap-blunder.
- To crawl under the arm is to interfere, be intrusive, distract.
50 phraseological units with the word "hand" and their approximate meaning
In fact, there are many more:

- Pull yourself together - control your nerves, calm down.
- Out of the blue - terribly bad, unsatisfactory.
- To have at hand - in close proximity, at a short distance.
- Wash hands - to withdraw, to renounce, to relieve oneself of any responsibility.
- To carry on hands is warm and anxious care, to protect.
- As a hand took off - quickly passed, healed; effectively helped (about a medicine or folk remedy).
- Not tirelessly - tirelessly, without rest, on wear.
- To fall under the hot hand is to be punished for nothing, for nothing, just because someone angered a person before.
- The hand does not rise - does not dare, does not dare.
- Hand in hand - nearby.
- Hands do not reach - once, never enough time.
- Hands itch - I really want to.
- Hand in hand - close enough.
- Grasp with both hands - really want, cherish, afraid to lose.
- To use someone else’s hands to rake in the heat - to appropriate the result of someone else’s labor, to provoke someone to an action that is beneficial to you.
- Golden hands are a great master.
- Long arms are great opportunities (in a negative sense).
- Both hands are left - unskillful.
- As without hands - it is necessary, something that can not do without.
- Waving your hand - despair, disappointed, refuse.
- To get a hand is to acquire a skill, gain experience, develop a skill.
- Putting your hands on yourself - commit suicide.
- To give up - to despair, to be disappointed, to abandon what was conceived.
- Handwritten - write with a pen, pencil or felt-tip pen.
- Shake hands - say hello, help (antonym - do not communicate, despise).
- Catch by the hand - catch red-handed, catch.
- A heavy hand is a good, strong, powerful blow.
- Shake hands - agree, make a deal.
- Clean hands are an honest man with a spotless conscience.
- From hand to hand - personally, without intermediaries.
- Not with the hand - uncomfortable.
- Hand on heart - sincerely, openly, without deception.
- Shrug - be at a loss, be surprised.
- With a light hand - on someone’s successful initiative.
- Rubbing your hands - gloating, rejoicing (in a negative sense).
- Give hand in hand - beat off any hunt, push it away.
- To be on hand is to be profitable.
- To be a pro with both hands is a warm support, not to mind at all.
- Sit back - to be lazy, to linger, to sleep.
- To be dishonest is to be dishonest, to deceive, to steal.
- Sleep in hand - a prophetic, prophesying dream, warning of a bad future or promising happiness.
- To ask for hands is to make a marriage proposal, to get married.
- To fall out of hand - not to succeed.
- Get away with it - go unpunished.
- Dissolve your hands - to fight, beat, behave impudently, brazenly.
- Get out of hand - do not obey, do what you want.
- The right hand is a deputy, an important person, an assistant.
- Better a tit in your hands than a crane in the sky - appreciate what you have, if you lose, you will cry.
- Hands grow from the wrong place - no matter what a person does, he does everything badly, ineptly.
- Hooked hands are about a person who cannot do anything properly; everything that can be spoiled or broken.