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Avid learner Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Duties at hand or duties in hand?
Hi,
1. It’s really interesting to have such a wonderful place to ride with those big jet taking off all around you, yet be focused on the duty at hand. (from:http://www.horseridingfun.com/airportride.html)
2. Do the duty at hand. And when you have done this, by degrees you will realise the Truth: "Whosoever in the midst of intense activity finds intense peace, whosoever in the midst of the greatest peace finds the greatest activity, he is a Yogi, he is a great soul, he has arrived at perfection." (from: http://cwsv.belurmath.org/volume_4/lectures_and_discourses/the_great_teachers_of_the_world.htm)
3. The magnitude of experience created a well round individual who is highly capable of handling the duty at hand. (http://www.linkedin.com/in/oneblazestudio).
4.Regarding the duties at hand you should perform them assiduously, yet not obsequiously.
In these four sentences we see the idiom “at hand”.
My question is, Can I use “the duty in hand” instead?
How do these two idioms (at hand and in hand) different in meaning?
Thanks in advance, A.L.
1. It’s really interesting to have such a wonderful place to ride with those big jet taking off all around you, yet be focused on the duty at hand. (from:http://www.horseridingfun.com/airportride.html)
2. Do the duty at hand. And when you have done this, by degrees you will realise the Truth: "Whosoever in the midst of intense activity finds intense peace, whosoever in the midst of the greatest peace finds the greatest activity, he is a Yogi, he is a great soul, he has arrived at perfection." (from: http://cwsv.belurmath.org/volume_4/lectures_and_discourses/the_great_teachers_of_the_world.htm)
3. The magnitude of experience created a well round individual who is highly capable of handling the duty at hand. (http://www.linkedin.com/in/oneblazestudio).
4.Regarding the duties at hand you should perform them assiduously, yet not obsequiously.
In these four sentences we see the idiom “at hand”.
My question is, Can I use “the duty in hand” instead?
How do these two idioms (at hand and in hand) different in meaning?
Thanks in advance, A.L.
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1. It’s really interesting to have such a wonderful place to ride with those big jets taking off all around you, yet be focused on the duty at hand.
The idiom is "at hand" meaning close by, or near by.
My question is, Can I use “the duty in hand” instead? No.
The idiom "on hand" = easily reachable, available
We have sufficient inventory o
The idiom is "at hand" meaning close by, or near by.
My question is, Can I use “the duty in hand” instead? No.
The idiom "on hand" = easily reachable, available
We have sufficient inventory o
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