hand over fist
Adverb
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Adverb
hand over fist (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Quickly or in great quantity, especially in reference to earning money.''
- He didn't earn much, but the company seemed to rake in money hand over fist.
- 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letters vol. I, chapter 4
- Are you coming over again to see me some day soon? I keep returning, and now hand over fist, from the realms of Hades: I saw that gentleman between the eyes, and fear him less after each visit.
- 1888, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, chapter 39
- Now, since cattle had risen and meat and all to such a price, he was making money hand over fist.
- (rapidly) hand over hand
- Russian: бы́стро
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