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hand in hand, advb. phr. (a., n.)
Also hand-in-hand.
[See hand n. 58.]
1. advb. phr. With hands mutually clasped; each holding the other's (or another's) hand.
c1500Three Kings' Sons (E.E.T.S.) 33 Than wente they two hand yn hand vndir the clothe of estate. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 648 They hand in hand, with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 117 The portraits of dwarfs hand in hand by Sir Peter Lely. 1870Thornbury Tour Eng. I. xii. 236 They dance hand-in-hand through [the] streets.
b. fig. In conjunction, side by side, concurrently; to go hand in hand with, to keep step with.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 341 The same..as it were running hand in hande with his wonderfull knowledge. 1641Brome Jovial Crew i. i. Wks. 1873 III. 358 Thy charity there goes hand in hand with mine. 1788Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 177 The debates went on daily hand in hand with the Indian business. 1874Green Short Hist. i. §3. 31 The industrial progress of the Mercian Kingdom went hand in hand with its military advance.
2. attrib. or adj. Going hand in hand or side by side; well-matched.
1611Shakes. Cymb. i. iv. 75 As faire, and as good: a kind of hand in hand comparison. 1817L. Hunt To T. L. H. iv. Poet. Wks. (1860) 258 Ah, first-born of thy mother..My bird when prison-bound, My hand in hand companion.
b. The name given to a Fire Insurance Office in London, founded in 1696; implying the mutual sharing of risks.
1781Cowper Friendship 106 Like hand in hand insurance plates. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVII. 493 It may be defined a hand-in-hand assurance office for securing mercantile credit.
3. n.
a. A representation of two hands mutually clasped.
b. Mutual clasping of hands.
c. A company of persons hand in hand.
1710Steele Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 A broad thick Gold Ring with a Hand in Hand graved upon it. 1842Tennyson Vision of Sin 162 Loving tears, And the warmth of hand in hand. 1880G. Meredith Trag. Com. (1881) 252 The whole Alpine hand-in-hand of radiant heaven-climbers. |