hand in glove

adverb

variants: or hand and glove

Updated on: 13 Apr 2018

Definition of hand in glove

: in extremely close relationship or agreement

working hand in glove with the police

Examples of hand in glove in a Sentence

as citizens we must work hand in glove with the local police to protect our children from sexual predators

Recent Examples of hand in glove from the Web

Later Buzzfeed uncovered documents showing Yiannopoulos himself had been working hand in glove with outright white supremacists to promote their views under his moderate facade.

— ryan cooper, New York Times, "A Political Movement, Defining Itself by What It Hates," 6 Apr. 2018
Reporting this week is that the United States is sort of hand in glove with the Brits on this investigation every step of the way and some horrifying, horrifying developments coming out of that.

— Fox News, "Sen. Graham on escalating tensions between Russia and the US," 1 Apr. 2018
Playing the good guy, Charles Bronson projects little charisma, and his unfeeling performance works hand in glove with Winner's clodhopper direction.

— ben sachs, Chicago Reader, "Death Wish makes a play for thematic complexity, but it's the same old revenge story," 2 Mar. 2018
The screenplay folded into the six novellas hand in glove.

— New York Times, "Tom Hanks: By the Book," 13 Oct. 2017
Fink worked hand in glove with Charles Koch to transform the centers at George Mason into think tanks for the New Right.

— alan wolfe, New Republic, "Rules for Radicals," 12 Sep. 2017

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