come to hand

come to hand
(come to (smb.'s) hand(s))
1) прийти, быть полученным (особ. о письме)

Meanwhile as José, whose arm was pierced by a broken bamboo, insists upon returning, I send this letter back in his charge, and only hope that it may eventually come to hand. (A. C. Doyle, ‘The Lost World’, ch. VIII) — Пока же я отправляю это письмо с Хосе, который поранил себе руку в бамбуковых зарослях и требует, чтобы его отпустили. Надеюсь, что письмо все-таки придет по назначению.

It was not often that a letter demanding decision... came to her hands past the kind and just censorship of Horace Pendyce. (J. Galsworthy, ‘The Country House’, part I, ch. VII) — В ее руки не так часто попадали письма, миновавшие любезную и справедливую цензуру Хораса Пендиса, а тем более такие, которые требовали принятия решения...

2) подвернуться под руку

She has been reading aimlessly anything that came to her hand... (Th. Dreiser, ‘The Financier’, ch. XLVIII) — Она читала без разбора все, что попадало ей под руку...

...men described and named new birds, when such came to hand. (E. Seton-Thompson, ‘Lobo: the King of Currumpaw and Other Stories’, ‘The Voice in the Tamaracks’) — ...когда неизвестная доселе птица попадала к ним в руки, они описывали ее и давали ей название.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • come to hand — Be received …   New dictionary of synonyms

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