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lay a hand on |
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lay a hand on somebody to hurt someone If you lay a hand on her I'll report you to the police. (often negative) I never laid a hand on her. lay a hand on somebody to hurt someone He claimed he would never once lay a hand on them. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"If you lay a hand on anybody I'm going with again---" she began. 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. 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. |
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