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hands-off

/handz-awf, -of/US // ˈhændzˈɔf, -ˈɒf //

不动手,不动手的,不干涉,不参与

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by nonintervention or noninterference: the new hands-off foreign policy.
    • : remote or unfriendly; estranging: a truculent, hands-off manner toward strangers.

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Examples

  • “We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.

  • With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.

  • She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

  • He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.

  • He burst into a loud laugh, clapped his hands, and danced before the delighted babe.

  • Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.