“the hand”

The following 3 entries include the term the hand.

quick-in-the-hand

noun

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

proverbial saying

used to say that it is better to hold onto something one has than to risk losing it by trying to get something better

by the hand

idiom

: by holding someone's hand sometimes used figuratively

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