- bound hand and foot
- bound hand and footwith hands and feet tied up. •
The robbers left us bound hand and foot.
•We remained bound hand and foot until the police found us and untied us.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
bound hand and foot
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hand and foot — {adv. phr.} 1. So that the hands and feet cannot be used. Used with bind or a synonym. * /The robbers bound him hand and foot and left him on the floor./ 2. So that no tree action is possible. Used with bind or a synonym. * /If Mr. Jones signs… … Dictionary of American idioms
hand and foot — {adv. phr.} 1. So that the hands and feet cannot be used. Used with bind or a synonym. * /The robbers bound him hand and foot and left him on the floor./ 2. So that no tree action is possible. Used with bind or a synonym. * /If Mr. Jones signs… … Dictionary of American idioms
hand\ and\ foot — adv. phr. 1. So that the hands and feet cannot be used. Used with bind or a synonym. The robbers bound him hand and foot and left him on the floor. 2. So that no tree action is possible. Used with bind or a synonym. If Mr. Jones signs that paper … Словарь американских идиом
hand and foot — adverb in all ways possible they served him hand and foot * * * adverb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hand and fōt 1. : in a way to prevent escape or totally impede action bound the prisoner hand a … Useful english dictionary
hand — [hand] n. [ME < OE, akin to Goth handus < base of hinthan, to seize (hence, basic sense “grasper”) < ? IE base * kent , ? to seize] I 1. the part of the human body attached to the end of the forearm, including the wrist, palm, fingers,… … English World dictionary
hand — 1 noun PART OF THE BODY 1 (C) the part at the end of a person s arm, including the fingers and thumb, used to pick up or keep hold of things: He held the pencil in his right hand. | Go wash your hands. | hold hands: They kissed and held hands. |… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
hand — I [[t]hæ̱nd[/t]] NOUN USES AND PHRASES ♦ hands (Please look at category 56 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.) 1) N COUNT Your hands are the parts of your body at the end of your arms. Each hand has four … English dictionary
bound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. limit, confine, delimit, demarcate; leap, spring, vault. See certainty, duty. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Literally confined in bonds] Syn. fettered, shackled, trussed up, manacled, chained, enchained … English dictionary for students
hand tool — any tool or implement designed for manual operation. * * * Introduction any of the implements used by craftsmen in manual operations, such as chopping, chiseling, sawing, filing, or forging. Complementary tools, often needed as auxiliaries to… … Universalium
Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… … History of philosophy
Foot binding — A pair of shoes for bound feet … Wikipedia
