Word of the week: hand
The word hand is a noun and a verb, and also features in several phrasal verbs. Three of these are included up to B2 level: hand in, hand out and hand over. At the C levels, the phrasal verb hand down will be added. As with previous entries for parts of the body, the noun appears in several idioms at C2, including get/gain the upper hand, get out of hand and have your hands full. The phrase hand in hand is included in the entry below at B2 with the literal meaning of holding hands, whereas the idiom go hand in hand will appear at C1. This is a common idiom, with substantial evidence of learner use in the Cambridge Learner Corpus – our policy in the English Vocabulary Profile is to restrict inclusion to frequent idioms for which there is also some learner evidence.To view the full entry for hand on the English Vocabulary Profile, please click here.
