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play into the hands of

play into the hands of is the alternative form of play into someone's hands.

Meaning of play into someone's hands

Verb

play into someone's hands (third-person singular simple present plays into someone's hands, present participle playing into someone's hands, simple past and past participle played into someone's hands)

  1. To act, or to manage matters, to someone's advantage or benefit.
    • It had been suggested Napoli's fans struggle to form an attachment with the Italy team and their silence throughout the first half and reaction at half time suggested they could hardly wait to get back to throwing their passion and fire behind their own team as they run away with Serie A and chase...2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport

Forms of play into the hands of

third-person singular presentplays into the hands of
present participleplaying into the hands of
past participleplayed into the hands of
pastplayed into the hands of

Questions about play into the hands of

What is play into the hands of the alternative form of?
Play into the hands of is the alternative form of play into someone's hands.

Words near play into the hands of in the dictionary

  1. play in Peoria
  2. play into
  3. play into someone's hand
  4. play into someone's hands
  5. play into the hand of
  6. play into the hands of
  7. play it cheap
  8. play it close to the hip
  9. play it cool
  10. play it for all it's worth
  11. play it pear-shaped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: play into the hands of (page history and authors); play into someone's hands (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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