Hands
Hands noun - (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child.
Workers
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
-
In the first episode of Hold The Back Page, Ken Wordsworth forgets his son's birthday and so hands him the dictionary his co-workers gave him as a joke present at his farewell party earlier that day (he was journalist leaving an upmarket paper to work at a tabloid).
Source: Convenience Store Gift Shopping - Workers: While we're earning our daily bread/ She's the one with her hands in the butter!
Source: Slut-Shaming - Another subversion is if the car hits, but the glass is simply knocked out of the workers' hands, and neither the glass nor the car is broken.
Source: Subverted Trope
Cite this Source
Workers and Hands. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hands/workers
Hands & Workers. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hands/workers>.
Workers or Hands. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hands/workers.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "hands" and "workers" have occurred on timeline