eat out of (one's) hand Idiom, Proverb

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

having one is better than seeing many When searching for a better job, remember A bird in the hand... .

a firm hand

a person who will discipline people The students in Grade 8 need a teacher with a firm hand.

a free hand

complete authority, freedom to control The President gave Ms. Drake a free hand in choosing the colors.

a handful

a child who is difficult to manage Jason is not easy to manage. He is a real handful for his mother.

a handout

free food or money, freeload I'm not asking for a handout. I'll pay you back when I find work.

a helping hand

help with a job or task, lend a hand May was always ready with a helping hand.

a hot hand

lucky in card games or at gambling Walter's got a hot hand tonight. He's won four games of poker.

an old hand at

a person with a lot of practice or experience Tom's an old hand at cribbage. He's played since he was a boy.

at hand

easy to reach, nearby I couldn't find any tools near at hand so I was unable to fix the stove.

at the hands of

while competing against, when fighting It was at the hands of his former student that he was defeated.

eat out of (one's) hand

To be absolutely accepting of whatever one says or requires. You can acquaint the applicant has his followers bistro out of his hand—they'll accept annihilation he says, no amount how audibly false.Learn more: eat, hand, of, out

eat out of someone's hand

Fig. to do absolutely as addition says; to abase to someone. I've got her bistro out of my hand. She'll do annihilation I ask. He will be bistro out of your duke afore you are accomplished with him.Learn more: eat, hand, of, out

eat out of someone's hand

Be manipulated or bedeviled by another, be submissive, as in He had the columnist bistro out of his hand. This allegorical announcement alludes to a acclimatized beastly bistro out of one's hand. [Early 1900s] Learn more: eat, hand, of, out

eat out of (someone's) hand

To be manipulated or bedeviled by another.Learn more: eat, hand, of, out

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at sixes and sevens at someone at stake at the crack of dawn at the drop of a hat at the eleventh hour at the end of my rope/ at the end of my tether at the end of one at the hands of at the ripe old age at the top of her game at the top of his voice at the top of one at the wheel at this point in time at will at your beck and call eat like a bird eat like a bird/horse, to eat like a horse eat like a pig eat lunch eat me Eat me! eat my shorts Eat my shorts! eat nails eat off eat one’s gun eat one’s hat eat one’s heart out eat one's cake and have it (too) eat one's cake and have it, too eat one's cake and have it, too, to eat one's hat eat one's hat, to eat one's heart out eat one's heart out, to eat one's words eat one's words, to eat out eat out of eat out of (one's) hand eat out of hand eat out of house and home eat out of someone's hand eat out of someone's hand, to eat pussy eat salt eat salt with eat salt with (someone) eat shit Eat shit! eat somebody alive eat somebody out of house and home eat somebody's lunch eat someone alive eat someone out of house and home eat someone out of house and home, to eat someone’s lunch eat someone's ass out eat someone's dust eat someone's lunch eat something up eat the bread of idleness eat through eat through (something) eat to live, not live to eat