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ready to hand

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Adj.1.ready to hand - easy to reach; "found a handy spot for the can opener"
handy
accessible - capable of being reached; "a town accessible by rail"


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But see that honey is there ready to hand, yellow, white, good, ice-cool, golden- comb-honey.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
But all I know, sir, is, that I am ready to hand you over this sum in exchange for your assignment of the debt.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
On certain afternoons in the week there were operations; and he stood in the well of the theatre, in a white jacket, ready to hand the operating surgeon any instrument he wanted or to sponge the blood away so that he could see what he was about.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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