HAND IN HAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hand in hand mean? 

• HAND IN HAND (adverb)
  The adverb HAND IN HAND has 2 senses:

1. together

2. clasping each other's hands

  Familiarity information: HAND IN HAND used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAND IN HAND (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Together

Context example:

doctors and nurses work hand in hand to save lives

Sense 2

Meaning:

Clasping each other's hands

Context example:

they walked hand in hand

 Context examples 

Wonder and beauty walked with him, hand in hand, and all power was his.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Chronic insomnia goes hand in hand with various long-term health issues such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes, as well as mental illness such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide.

(Can't Sleep? Could Be Down to Genetics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A study shows that these differences go hand in hand with differences in the patterns of integration among functional modules of the brain.

(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Three men ran together, hand in hand; and I made out, even through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was the blind beggar.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He accepted Destiny, marched hand in hand with it, and coolly measured the stroke.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As I went out of the office, hand in hand with this new acquaintance, I stole a look at him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jonathan and I stood hand in hand, and we felt that our best and dearest friend was gone from us....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They still piled the brushwood round the base of the tower, and gambolled hand in hand around the blaze, screaming out the doggerel lines which had long been the watchword of the Jacquerie.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)