Meaning of hand over fist | Babel Free

Definitions

Quickly or in great quantity, especially in reference to earning money.

idiomatic, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“to make⟳ money hand over fist”

“Are you coming over again to see⟳ me some day soon? I keep⟳ returning, and now hand over fist, from the realms of Hades: I saw⟳ that gentleman between the eyes, and fear him less after each visit⟳.”

“Now, since cattle had risen and meat and all to such a price, he was making money hand over fist.”

“He was a live⟳ man and a brisk talker, and had two journeymen and three apprentices, and was doing a raging business. In fact, he was getting rich, hand over fist, and was vastly respected.”

“Why, those Dalmatians are showing Pajaro apples on the South African market right now, and coining money out of it hand over fist.”

“Now we are in the War and our business is booming, we are making money hand over fist.”

“Still it’s the same fish⟳ perhaps old Micky Hanlon of Moore street ripped the guts out of making money hand over fist finger in fishes’ gills can’t write⟳ his name⟳ on a cheque think⟳ he was painting the landscape with his mouth twisted.”

“And while pulling in dollars hand over fist might have⟳ some educational value, I doubt⟳ it's what Congress had in mind⟳.”

“England made metres hand over fist and, that intensity, combined with set-piece dominance, made a breakthrough inevitable.”

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