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Definition of Helping hand
1. Noun. Physical assistance. "Give me a hand with the chores"
Definition of Helping hand
1. Noun. (idiomatic) Any assistance, help or aid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helping Hand
Literary usage of Helping hand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"I doubt whether the allies on this side will be able to stretch out a helping
hand in season. Such is the precise condition of opinion at the moment, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... not to lay any stress on the country he belongs to, it would never be borne,
and he for one would never consent to lend a helping hand to make him one ..."
3. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... By whose prayer and helping hand, This house erected here doth stand y." vi.
The mayor and aldermen of Dublin bestowed on the college the site thereof, ..."
4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Sights and Scenes — The Little Sign, "helping hand for Men" — Inside the
Mission Building — An Audience of ex-Convicts and Criminals — A Tough Crowd — . ..."
5. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini by New York (N.Y.), Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1897)
"... Cornelis Melyn of Staten Island about it, who had said some time ago, that he
was ready to lend a helping hand. Arent van Hattem is commissioned by ..."
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