单词 | to change the hand |
释义 | > as lemmasto change the hand (c) To pass from one person's hands or possession to another's. Also to change hand (rare), †to change the hand (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > make relinquishment [verb (intransitive)] > hand over to another > change hands to change hands1614 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. xii. §.3 146 The Athenians ruling fiue daies, the Lacedaemonians other fiue... The common profit..must of necessitie be very slowly aduanced, where consultation, resolution, and performance are so often to change hands. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. x. 529 The place however only chang'd the hand without going out of the Family. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. ii. 72 Money changeth hands. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 467 When property changes hands..such taxes have frequently been imposed upon it as necessarily take away some part of its capital value. View more context for this quotation 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 100 The property in the soil must change hands. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 160 The whole soil would soon change hands. 1901 Mineral Industry 9 209 Once again a buying movement set in, and Lake copper changed hand at 16.375c. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet i. ii. 33 But when cash money starts changing hands, that's something else. 2008 Nespresso No. 2. 72/2 The green beans..have already changed hands several times. < as lemmas |
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