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单词 from hand to hand
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from hand to hand
a. from hand to hand: from one person to another; through a series or succession of hands.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase] > from one person to another
from hand to handc1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1033 Þus is þis eit-lond i-gon from honde to hond.
a1400 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 67 Þo world makus a mon to ryse & falle, And chulles hym as men don a balle þat is casten fro hande to hande.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. v. l. 141 Goldyn cowpis went fra hand to hand.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 18 Their writings came to posteritie..from hand to hand.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 10 The word was given from hand to hand through the company.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 55 A Tale never loses in the telling. The Fame or Report of a matter of Fact..commonly receives an Addition as it goes from Hand to Hand.
1765 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 90 Such optional notes as are then in the circle may freely pass from hand to hand during any after period.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xii. 209 Kind service cannot be chucked from hand to hand like a shuttlecock or stool-ball.
1882 W. Besant Revolt of Man ix. 217 This tract had been circulated from hand to hand.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. 23 I..organized lines of men to pass the stores from hand to hand down the steep bank.
2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 216 My eyes are anxiously following the gun as it goes from hand to hand.
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