1. lend a hand - Verb
2. lend a hand - Phrase
lend a hand (third-person singular simple present lends a hand, present participle lending a hand, simple past and past participle lent a hand)
(idiomatic) To help or assist, especially voluntarily.
If we all lend a hand, the work will go quickly.
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. Edward Everett Hale
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. Hippocrates
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. Jacques Barzun
Well, if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand. I've seen your face before my friend But I don't know if you know who I am. Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes. So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been. It's all been a pack of lies. Phil Collins
I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand. Cat Cora
Refrain tonight, and that shall lend a hand of easiness to the next abstinence the next more easy for use can almost change the stamp of nature, and either curb the devil, or throw him out with wondrous potency. William Shakespeare