handsomethingdown
phrasal verbwithhandverb[T]uk/hænd/us/hænd/
(OBJECT)
C2
to give something to someoneyoungerthan you in thefamilybecause youwantthem to have it or because you nolongerneed it:
Thisnecklacewashandeddown to mymotherby mygrandmother.
Giving, providing and supplying
- accommodate
- accord
- administer
- administration
- assignment
- award
- hand off
- handsomethingout
- handsomethingover
- handsomethinground
- handoff
- invest
- lay
- passing
- rebid
- regift
- reprovision
- resource
- resupply
- spare
(TRADITION)
C2
topasstraditionsfromolderpeopletoyoungerones:
acustomhandeddown through thegenerations
Teaching in general
- asynchronous
- chief academic officer
- CLIL
- clue
- clue in
- communicative
- didactic
- disciplinary
- instruct
- non-conditioned
- non-didactic
- non-education
- non-educational
- non-teaching
- socialize
- SRE
- synchronous
- teachsomeonea lessonidiom
- teachable
- that'll teachsomeoneidiom
(DECISION)
toannounceanofficialdecision,especiallyin acourtoflaw:
Thecourthandeddown an eight-yearsentence.
Heplanstoappealtheverdicthandeddown by ajuryyesterday.
Afederalgrandjuryhandeddown anindictmentintendedtostriphim of his UScitizenship.
to accuse someone of something
- accuseHe was accused of statutory rape.
- make an accusation againstShe was arrested for making false accusations against her former employer.
- level an accusation againstFerguson was furious at the accusations levelled against his player.
- level a charge againstShe denied all the charges levelled against her.
- hurl accusations atShe hurled accusations at her ex-husband across the courtroom.
- charge someone withHe was charged with three counts of fraud.
Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaintsomeone/yourselfwithsomething
- affirm
- annunciation
- avowedly
- awaken
- awakensomeonetosomething
- break
- break it/the news tosomeoneidiom
- breathe/say a wordidiom
- known
- on the recordidiom
- proclamation
- pronounce
- rapporteur
- record
- resensitize
- rollout
- self-anointed
- self-avowed
- statement