单词 | one's hand is out |
释义 | > as lemmasone's hand is out (b) one's hand is out: one is out of practice, or is lacking one's usual skill or ability at something. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > unaccustomed to [phrase] > out of practice one's hand is out1598 out of ure1625 out of practice1782 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. sig. D4 Wide a'the bow hand, yfaith your hand is out . View more context for this quotation 1683 Satyr by way of Dial. between Lucifer & Ghosts of Shaftsbury & Russell 4 When any Mischief's acted by our Sotts, Make Titus blame his horrid Popish Plots; But's Hand is out, 'ts long since he kist the Book, Which makes me fear his Oaths will ne'er be took. 1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) iii. iii. 31 For a Supper I have not dress'd one so long, that I am afraid my Hand is out. 1798 T. Wallace Ess. Manufactures Ireland i. ix. 111 Every one..knows what is meant by the workman when he complains that his hand is out... At this time he is incapable of working either so quick or so well as at other times. 1849 C. Dickens Let. Apr. (1981) V. 526 My hand is out in the matter of Copperfield. To-day and yesterday I have done nothing. 1885 Jrnl. Educ. Feb. (Suppl.) 96/2 ‘We are going down,’ he said to me one day, ‘and it's my fault; my hand's out and I can't get it in again.’ 1902 Good Housek. Dec. 454/2 When I started on my work I found that my hand was out. 1922 M. Widdemer Winona on her Own ix. 212 The poor dear has been a mother so long that her hand's out, as she'd put it, for any other profession. < as lemmas |
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