on/in your hands; on/in hand

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joham

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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.
 

5jj

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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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