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    Default on/in your hands; on/in hand

    1 You have way too much time in your hands.
    2 You have way too much time on your hands.
    3 You have way too much time in hand.
    4 You have way too much time on hand.

    Are all four sentences right? Many thanks.

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    Default Re: on/in your hands; on/in hand

    Quote Originally Posted by joham View Post
    1 You have way too much time in your hands.
    2 You have way too much time on your hands.
    3 You have way too much time in hand.
    4 You have way too much time on hand.

    Are all four sentences right? Many thanks.
    We need rather more context before we can say. Only #2 seems likely, and #1 seems unacceptable, but I hesitate to say that #3 and #4 are not possible.
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