“hand-me-down” English expressions with HAND
Parts of the body vocabulary are frequently found in idiomatic expressions in English
Here’s another one using HAND:
Hand-me-down (adj)
meaning: used or owned by somebody else before you
often used to refer to clothes; jokes; anecdotes
– When I was little I often used to wear clothes that were hand-me-downs from my older brother.
– I used hand-me-down school books, before they were my uncle’s
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