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Idioms and Phrases

see bound hand and foot ; wait on someone hand and foot .
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Example Sentences

When she was first rescued, she was found to have injuries from shotgun pellets that have left her with a paralysed hand and foot on her right side.

From BBC

The writer rattles off missives condemning the Wilson administration and falsely claiming to be at the center of protests in New York City, all while ensconced in his luxurious isolation, waited on hand and foot.

Its wish list includes: non-wool blankets, hand and foot warmers, rain coats, socks, gloves, hygiene supplies like toothpaste and deodorant and nonperishable food.

A perfect metaphor to highlight the repulsive and obscene levels of wealth and privilege these people hold and forget about so easily as they have people wait on them hand and foot.

From Salon

Toxic Shock is a 30-meter-long crack climb, in which climbers follow a crack in the rock rather than using protruding hand and foot holds.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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