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hand over hand
Idioms and Phrases
see hand over fist .Example Sentences
Stafford talked him back in, saying “move your hand over, start to float up … stick your hand up … just walk hand over hand.”
Unlike other frogs in the rainforest, these tree dwellers tend not to hop or jump, but to walk hand over hand, strolling through tree canopies — unless presented with a threat.
Hand over hand, Moore and her crews pull the nets across their skiffs, untangling each salmon from the mesh, then stabbing them with knives to bleed them before they are picked up by processing company crews that cruise the beach in trucks.
Never daring to look around, she pulled herself up the tower, hand over hand, all the time keeping in mind her promise to her parents and the horrible things Count Olaf would do if his villainous plan worked.
“We had to move her hand over hand because it was pretty tight and vertical coming out,” Haley said, noting that at one point he and Keene had to slither through mud in a long corkscrew tunnel.
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