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hold (one's) hand

1. Literally, to grasp one's hand and continue holding it, as a show of affection, often while walking together or sitting next to each other. I think it's so sweet how Jenny holds Tim's hand when they walk into school.

2. To comfort or support one when they are frightened, anxious, or distressed. I know you're worried about giving your speech, but I'll be there to hold your hand.

3. To carefully guide one through something; to make something very easy for one. Thank you, but I can figure these problems out myself without you holding my hand. The video game is brutally difficult, and it doesn't hold the player's hand at any point.

hold someone's hand

1. Lit. to hold the hand of someone who is frightened, especially a child. Please hold Jimmy's hand when you cross the street.

2. Fig. to comfort someone who is anxious or frightened. You'll be all right, won't you? You don't need anyone to hold your hand, do you?

See also: hand, hold

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html) Robin Kermode , Prince William and Middleton are "emotionally close" and they don't hold hands in public because they "do not feel the need to prove their love.

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Twenty-two percent opt only to hold hands with family and friends.

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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

When men and women hold hands men usually take the dominant position, usually because they are taller but even when height is not a factor, the study showed than men favoured being the overhand because it gave them a position of power, according to Slate.

It's official! Lesbians hold hands better

However extraordinary and exciting I might like to present myself, in the end I'd just like to sit down and watch telly with someone and hold hands.

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If men are allowed to hold hands, how is it that a man and a woman can't hold hands?

Fostering better cultural understanding

WARM SILENCE WE walked a mile just you and me Along the beach beside the sea We did not speak we just held hands Inhaled the smell of the salt-washed breeze Set free our minds with the ebbing tide Let the sun kiss our faces - it feels warm and so kind Like the promise of a pleasure that is secret just to us As we walk words have no meaning We just hold hands And know that this mile by the water Speaks the words of the pleasure Captured in the silence Known only to us.

READERS' POEMS

With these Smittens, you each get one regular glove, but you share the other, meaning that you can hold hands properly without getting chilled.

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DAVE Even if you didn't hold hands, you were probably close enough to this dude to plant some suspicion in your boyfriend's head.

Hey, hold off

They usually hold hands at a certain point instead of just a brief, embarrassed, you know, 'Peace,'" she laughed.

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Some of them gathered again at noon to hold hands and pray in the plaza outside Lancaster City Hall.

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I would like to comment on the January Glad You Asked ("Why do we hold hands during the Our Father?

Mass etiquette

SHAMELESS telly stars Anne-Marie Duff and James McAvoy tenderly hold hands - and show they have fallen for each other in real life.