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 More results

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