off someone's hands
off someone's hands prepositional phrase: out of someone's possession or care.
Prepositional phrase
- Out of someone's possession or care.
- Let me take that off your hands.
- I’ve got everything I need. My house is paid for and my three children are off my hands and doing very well. I’ve never been envious of the players who have gone on and done well for themselves on the football pitch and financially.2022 July 24, Susan Gray, quoting Tony Carr, “‘I trained Lampard and Ferdinand – but my best decision was starting a pension’”, in The Telegraph
- Antonyms:
- on someone's hands
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Questions about off someone's hands
- What does off someone's hands mean?
- Off someone's hands means out of someone's possession or care.
- What part of speech is off someone's hands?
- Off someone's hands is a prepositional phrase.
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