lay a hand on

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lay a hand on someone

to hurt someone. If you lay a hand on her I'll report you to the police. I never laid a hand on her. (often negative)

See also: hand, lay

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"If you lay a hand on anybody I'm going with again---" she began. The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him--that's what I say, and you may lay to it. Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context There, in his father's room, at midnight, the fire was roaring and the gas blazing; the papers, the sacred papers - to lay a hand on which was criminal - had all been taken off and piled along the floor; a cloth was spread, and a supper laid, upon the business table; and in his father's chair a woman, habited like a nun, sat eating. Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context More results

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"If you lay a hand on anybody I'm going with again---" she began.

The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context

He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him--that's what I say, and you may lay to it.

Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

There, in his father's room, at midnight, the fire was roaring and the gas blazing; the papers, the sacred papers - to lay a hand on which was criminal - had all been taken off and piled along the floor; a cloth was spread, and a supper laid, upon the business table; and in his father's chair a woman, habited like a nun, sat eating.

Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

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