put one's hands onとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

put one's hands on (三人称単数 現在形 puts one's hands on, 現在分詞 putting one's hands on, 過去形および過去分詞形 put one's hands on)

1. To assault.
   • 2008, E.N. Joy, Me, Myself and Him:

     I can't believe I put my hands on him like that. I feel awful for hitting him.

   • 2009, Michele E. Davis, On My Way to Heaven, page 59:

     He never physically put his hands on me though he threatened many times.

   • 2012, Daaimah S. Poole, Ex-girl To The Next Girl, page 62:

     No, I did not put my hands on your child.

2. To interfere with.
   • 2006, Rha Goddess, Low, page 92:

     You not supposed to put your hands on my stuff either You racist bitch!

   • 2010, J. D. Mason, Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It: A Novel, page 84:

     “How dare you put your hands on my things!” she screamed and growled, slapping and scratching at his face, pulling viciously on the collar of his shirt.

   • 2012, Cam Rascoe, Hennry Horrowitz Presents:Harlots Hustlers & Heroines, page 180:

     Well Sergio belongs to me; since you had the balls to put your hands on my property I figured they had to be pretty big.”

3. To obtain or find.
   • 2006, William W. Johnstone, Invasion Usa: Border War:

     If he doesn't already own some helicopters, he's bound to be able to put his hands on some.”

   • 2007, Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, March 2007, page 48:

     Any ideas where I can put my hands on some new shoes for the front and rear?

   • 2011, Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul, page 353:

     I would give a great deal if I could put my hands on some of those paintings (now lost) I did at home between the ages of sixteen and seventeen, depictions of “family happiness” in what we might call the Tolstoyan sense of the phrase.

   • 2019, Jeanne Charters, Yellow:

     He had to put his hands on some money— and soon.

4. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see put,‎ hands.
   • 2008, Zack Highstreet, A Plague on Both Houses, page 215:

     He put his hands on both sides of the wall.