Fan
Hand
Hand noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.
Usage example: once she got her own place, the young woman showed that she was quite a hand at interior decoration
How words are described
| old | old fan | old hand |
| good | good fan | good hand |
| short | short fan | short hand |
| complete | complete fan | complete hand |
| Other adjectives: single, open, strong, actual, real, massive, large, big, huge, magic, new, major, giant. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Justified in most westerns, as the single action triggers used at the time made it more popular to fire with one hand and fan the hammer with the other, although films depicting one-handed use of revolvers will often not show the hammer being fanned at all.
Source: Firing One-Handed - In The Royle Family, Dad Royle is reduced to rage to discover the batteries have been taken out of his beloved remote to power Nana Royle's hand-held fan.
Source: Lost The TV Remote -
Though The Emperor himself is a fan of hand-to-hand combat that he became angry at Tau's disdain for it.
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Hand and Fan. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fan/hand
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Hand or Fan. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fan/hand.
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