HAND ON Definition & Meaning

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hand on

verb

tr, adverb to pass to the next in a succession

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Idioms and Phrases

Turn over to another, as in When you've read it, please hand it on to Sam . This term can also be used in the sense of “bequeath” (see hand down , def. 1). [Second half of 1800s]

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“I put my hand on his chest and gave him my energy, ’cause I can only imagine carrying this film.”

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But on Wednesday it was Depardieu who was subject to intense questioning, and at one point appeared to imply that a hand on a buttock did not constitute sexual assault.

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Smelling blood, the lawyer swooped: "You're saying that sexual assault has to be more than a hand on the buttocks?"

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On the first, she had been accompanying him from his dressing-room to the set when she felt his hand on her buttock.

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But I did not, hand on heart, realise the profound effects it was going to have on people.

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