helping hand
noun
1.
aid; assistance:
to give the destitute a helping hand.
Origin
1400-50;
late Middle English
Examples from the web for
helping hand
Sometimes natural selection gets a
helping hand
from humans.
She is now a
helping hand
to her special-needs students.
Yahoo's new open-search platform is giving semantic search a
helping hand
.
Yahoo's new open-search platform is giving semantic search a
helping hand
.
Becoming a street-food vendor is a time-honored road to success-but sometimes you need a
helping hand
to figure out the ropes.
Any mutations that arose in the cherry-picked cells get a
helping hand
, and they soon dominate the new population.
It's a good day to get an extra
helping hand
or ask for small favors.
You'll see her there every day, though, lending a
helping hand
with all the painstaking detail required for this kind of food.
British Dictionary definitions for
helping hand
helping hand
noun
1.
assistance:
many people lent a helping hand in making arrangements for the party
Idioms and Phrases with
helping hand
helping hand
see under
lend a hand