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Definition of Come in handy
1. Verb. Be useful for a certain purpose.
Definition of Come in handy
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To be useful or helpful, especially at some time in the future. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Come In Handy
Literary usage of Come in handy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"Large or small they often come in handy in an emergency as shelves, or aids to
decoration. WE remind the trade that our Annual ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1878)
"... and on our expressing concurrence, he went on : " Ay, they come in handy to
fasten boats to— they are main handy in more ways than one. ..."
3. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"... to come home to (in a fig. sense), zu Hilfe kommen to come to one's aid,
zustatten kommen to come in handy to, be of use to, zu stehen kommen (see 269. ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"Tour respective manuscripts, which I am sorry not to have utilised on this
occasion, will no doubt come in handy for the Symposia of next month's Magazines. ..."
5. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1902)
"A merchant seaman is so hard to teach anything new, that were it not that they
come in handy for such work as sailmaking, they would not be of much value to ..."
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