on+all+hands

  • 21all hands — noun plural 1. : an entire ship s company 2. : everybody engaged in the same pursuit …

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  • 22hands — n. 1. a person s power or discretionary action; as, my fate is in your hands. Syn: custody. [WordNet 1.5] 2. The force of workers available; as, all hands on deck. Syn: work force, manpower, men. [WordNet 1.5] A dictionary containing a natural… …

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  • 23lost with all hands — adjective destroyed or sunk, while all passengers and crew died …

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  • 24on all hands — or on every hand phrasal everywhere …

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  • 25on all hands — idi or every hand , everywhere …

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  • 26Hands off — Hand Hand (h[a^]nd), n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand, OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[ o]nd, Goth. handus, and perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.] 1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in …

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  • 27hands, all —    Used to address all members of a ship’s crew, the speaker usually being the captain. An example of such usage occurs in Doctor at Sea, by Richard Gordon, but it was probably far more frequent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries than it …

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  • 28all — Synonyms and related words: A to Z, A to izzard, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, acme, across the board, aggregate, all and some, all and sundry, all being, all creation, all hands, all in all,… …

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  • 29all round — Synonyms and related words: all about, all over, all over hell, and everywhere, around, every which way, everywhence, everywhere, everywheres, everywhither, far and near, far and wide, from every quarter, here, high and low, in all creation, in… …

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  • 30all together — Synonyms and related words: all agreeing, all at once, as one, as one man, at a blow, at a clip, at a stroke, at once, at one blow, at one jump, at one stroke, at one swoop, at one time, by acclamation, coinstantaneously, concurrently, conjointly …

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