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To be intimately knowledgeable about something, especially a place. To embezzle, to steal from one's place of business.

To pass or transfer something to someone.

It is better to remain satisfied with what you have earned or you have got, rather than craving for what is out of reach or difficult to get hold ofīring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely. It is preferable to have a small but certain advantage than a mere potential of a greater one.Īn inexperienced crew member of a 19th-century whaler on his first voyage.īird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush To give something to a responsible person.Ī bird in the hand is worth two in the bush It is often used while simultaneously holding up the hand with the palm facing the speaker.Īlternative form of wait on hand and foot. Used usually sarcastically to dismiss another person's argument by indicating that the speaker (or writer) is not prepared to hear (or read) anything further that the other person has to say (or write). To guide somebody through the basics or assist with excessively small details. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. To go to one's doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. Involving immediate consumption with no provision for the future having barely enough to survive, being close to poverty To require someone to depart to dismiss someone. With a standard batting grip, the hand placed further down the handle of the bat the batsman's dominant hand, providing most power to a shot.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the worldĪlternative form of the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Two parts of an organization are unaware of each other's activities.īy passing the hands alternately one before or above the other, especially with rope The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing Of two things, to be closely related or to go together well see hand in hand. Naturally, ordinarily or predictably together commonly having a correlation or relationship.