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hand over fist

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hand over fist
if you make or lose money hand over fist, you make or lose large amounts of it very quickly. Business was good and we were making money hand over fist.
See also: fist, hand, over

hand over fist
quickly and continuously. A few years ago, those people made money hand over fist. Developers are putting up cheap new houses hand over fist in our town.
See also: fist, hand, over

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In fact, he was getting rich, hand over fist, and was vastly respected.
We wanted to take him ashore at once, but Henry was game; he said he'd be jiggered if he'd leave a school like that for anything short of lockjaw; then he kept fishing away, hauling in hand over fist and groaning between times.
 
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