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suffering housemaid's kneeQuaint expression of earlier days relative to female servants performing chores of scrubbing floor on hands and knees.Rate it:

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take matters into one's own handsTo deal with a problem alone, because others responsible have failed to deal with it.Rate it:

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take the law into one's own handsTo punish someone according to one's own idea of justice and without consideration for the role of law enforcement authorities.Rate it:

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there but for the grace of god go iA recognition that others' misfortune could be one's own, if it weren't for the blessing/kindness/luck bestowed by fate or the Divine.Man's fate is in God's hands.More generally, our fate is not entirely in our own hands.Rate it:

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thread the needleA game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbour, runs between the others.Rate it:

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throw upTo display a gang sign using the hands.Rate it:

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tie someone's handsTo render one powerless to act, to thwart someone.Rate it:

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totum se committere, tradere alicuito put oneself entirely in some one's hands.Rate it:

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un peu d'aide fait grand bienMany hands make light work.Rate it:

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victoriam exploratam dimittereto let a sure victory slip through one's hands.Rate it:

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waft offTo shoo by wafting with the hands.Rate it:

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wash one's handsto wash one's hands ofRate it:

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wash one's handsto go to the toiletRate it:

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wash one's hands ofTo absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for.Rate it:

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wash upTo wash one's hands and/or face, often around mealtimes.Rate it:

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Wash Your Hands of SomethingStop being involved in something, to end involvement with someone or something, stop being responsible for something, disownRate it:

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with both handsUsed other than as an idiom: see with, both, hands.Rate it:

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with both handsWillingly; readily.Rate it:

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with one's bare handsbarehandedlyRate it:

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wring outTo squeeze a wet material, either by twisting with one's hands, or by passing it through a wringer, to remove the water.Rate it:

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руки из жопы растутall thumbs; literally, hands grow from the arse )Rate it:

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руки не из того места растутall thumbs; literally, hands grow from the wrong spot )Rate it:

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