<span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> By more or less everybody; generally. It was believed <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> that the two of them were having an illicit affair. 1710, George Berkeley...
<span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> pl (plural only) <span class="searchmatch">All</span> of the passengers and crew of a ship. <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> deck lost with <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> the whole crew etc <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> Ellipsis of all...
<span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> to the deck <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> deck (nautical) An order, <span class="searchmatch">on</span> board ship, for <span class="searchmatch">all</span> seamen of <span class="searchmatch">all</span> watches to muster <span class="searchmatch">on</span> deck immediately; normally shortened...
<span class="searchmatch">all</span>-<span class="searchmatch">hands</span> (not comparable) Requiring the involvement of everyone available. <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> “<span class="searchmatch">all</span>-<span class="searchmatch">hands</span>”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:...
unless the thing is understood at <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> every <span class="searchmatch">hand</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> <span class="searchmatch">all</span> sides, from every direction, generally “<span class="searchmatch">hand</span>”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged...
enterprise. Synonym: all <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> deck “<span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> to the pump” (US) / “<span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> to the pump” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary. “<span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> to the pump”, in...
<span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> to the deck Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> deck....
multiple magazine detonations rip the ship apart, and is lost with <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span>. destroyed or sunk, while <span class="searchmatch">all</span> passengers and crew died <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> deck...
<span class="searchmatch">hands</span> <span class="searchmatch">on</span> deck <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> to the deck <span class="searchmatch">all</span> <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> to the pump <span class="searchmatch">all</span>-hang-out <span class="searchmatch">all</span> hat and no cattle <span class="searchmatch">all</span> hat and no cowboy <span class="searchmatch">all</span>-heal allheal <span class="searchmatch">all</span>-healing <span class="searchmatch">all</span> heart...
<span class="searchmatch">on</span> someone's <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> (idiomatic) Being someone's liability or responsibility; with which someone is lumbered. Antonym: off someone's <span class="searchmatch">hands</span> 1986, Romain Gary...