from hand to hand

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from hand to hand

Fig. from one person to a series of other persons. The book traveled from hand to hand until it got back to its owner. By the time the baby had been passed from hand to hand, it was crying.

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The islanders, who only smoke a whiff or two at a time, and at long intervals, and who keep their pipes going from hand to hand continually, regarded my systematic smoking of four or five pipefuls of tobacco in succession, as something quite wonderful. Typee by Melville, Herman View in context			friendship frighten frighten away frighten into frighten into doing frighten one out of wits frighten out of wits frighten the daylights out of frighten the hell out of frighten the life out of frighten to death frightened to death fringe fritter away fritz frog from all corners of the world from coast to coast from dawn to dusk from day one from day to day from door to door from far and near from giddy-up to whoa from git-go from hand to hand from head to toe from hell from hell to breakfast from here on from here till next Tuesday from hunger from Missouri from my perspective from of the top drawer from on high from one moment to the next from overseas from pillar to post from rags to riches from scratch from sea to shining sea from side to side from soup to nuts from start to finish from stem to stern from the bottom of heart from the corner of eye from the cradle to the grave from the ground up from the heart			From Data to Knowledge From Date of Service from dawn to dusk from day one from day to day from day to day From Discovery to Recovery from door to door from door to door from door to door from door to door from door to door From Dusk 'til Dawn From Dust to Planetesimals from each one From Earth To The Moon From Emotion to Reason From Emotions to Advocacy From fair to middling From far from far and near From First to Last From First to Last From Fuzzy to Formal From Genesis to Revelation from giddy-up to whoa from git-go From Good Homes From Grains of Sand From Grief to Action from hand to hand from hand to mouth from hand to mouth from hand to mouth from hand to mouth from head to foot from head to foot from head to foot from head to foot from head to toe from head to toe from head to toe from head to toe from head to toe From Hell From Hell From Hell from hell to breakfast from hence from hence from here on from here on from here till next Tuesday From Here to Awesome From Here to Eternity From Here to Paternity From Here to There From here to Timbuktu From here to Timbuktu From Home to Operation from hour to hour

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