ready to hand
Speech parts
1. ready to hand - Adjective
2. ready to hand - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
easy to reach
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Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
The most dismaying call of this kind came one night at nine o'clock from a youth of sixteen who said: "I've got to have this essay ready to hand in tomorrow morning, and I'm stuck. Can you give me some help with these-here Jungian archeotypes?"
found a handy spot for the can opener