wait on hand and foot, to To serve someone’s every need, to attend assiduously. This expression is very old indeed; a manuscript of ca. 1330 states “Sche . . . servede hem hande and fete.” InThe Perfect Woman(1955) L. P. Hartley wrote, “He has everything he wants and servants...
be hand and foot to (one) be in (one's) hands be in good hands be in hand be in safe hands be like putty in (one's) hands be like putty in someone's hands be on hand be out of (one's) hands be putty in (one's) hands be rubbing (one's) hands (with glee) be rubbing...
Wedded to creativity and spirituality since the dawn of humanity, the symbolisms of the hand and the foot have assumed many religious and artistic forms. This essay explores the artistic and religious significance of the hand and foot in the prehistoric rock art of North Africa and Arabia and ...
New molecular methods may help to better differentiate eczema and psoriasis, e.g. the disease-specific expression of the genes NOS2 and CCL27 is used for this purpose [50]. 2.1 Medical History Medical history should include first signs and symptoms, course and time of HE, exacerbations and ...
an expression used to introduce two opposing parts of an argumentetc.(On the one hand) we could stay and help you, but on the other hand, it might be better if we went to help him instead.por un lado... por el otro out of hand ...
This expression is often used to introduce an item that opposes one that has just been introduced by the phrase on the one hand:On the other hand, we have to consider the human factor. Idioms out of hand: out of control:The mob got completely out of hand. Idioms take (something or ...
Young individuals in front of green screen making hand gestures, no entry sign, facial expression of individual in front of green curtain 00:21 Exploring Nature's Beauty: Gentle Hand on Green Moss in Rainforest 00:15 arc shot closeup of big dragonfly sits on woman fingers with lake and gr...
Then people would probably want to 'lend me a hand' and 'wait on me hand-and-foot,' which is another strange expression. It means to act like my servant and bring me anything I need. Well, I would have people 'eating out of my hand.' And that means people doing anything I want....
Population-spe- cific influences affect not only the growth in both sexes but also the expression and degree of skeletal dimor- phism (Swift et al. 2023). In the present study, a discriminant function equation from these three measurements (HW, MMB, and IML x IMW) was formulated to ...
Likewise, a chapter on the Manual Labor Schools tells fascinating stories of Lafayette and Oberlin Colleges in the 1830s and 1840s, noting how the "the conservative strain of the movement" celebrated the healthful effects of manual life (but not hand work?!) to "give expression to a harmonio...