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matter in hand

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the matter in hand (British, American & Australian, formal, American, formal)
the subject or situation that is being thought about or talked about. Do these figures have anything to do with the matter in hand?
See also: hand, matter
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I should be sorry if my conscience, insisting on a rigid attention to the matter in hand, forced me to dismiss him in a couple of lines.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
But in everything I have written there is always one invariable intention, and that is to capture the reader's attention, by securing his interest and enlisting his sympathies for the matter in hand, whatever it may be, within the limits of the visible world and within the boundaries of human emotions.
Typhoon by Conrad, Joseph View in context
The ambassadors of the other nations asked us to take the matter in hand and hasten the assistant keeper to the plant.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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