lay one's hands on

Definitions

To lay hands on.

Equivalents

Examples

“There are the engines that develop⟳ ill-health and begin⟳ to lose⟳ time, or the wagons that develop⟳ hot boxes and have⟳ to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.”

“Perhaps the best news to come⟳ out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism pieced together from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay⟳ their hands on.”

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