Term Gallery logo

Meanings of comes handy in English

We have no meanings for "comes handy" in our records yet.
Usage of comes handy in English
1
The investor demand comes handy for fast casual restaurants looking to expand.
Reuters
2
This is never missing from the official rhetoric when it comes handy.
The South African
3
The I. W. W. operates under any local name which comes handy.
The Red Conspiracy
4
In the meantime they're willin' to pick up anythin' eatable that comes handy.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
5
In the meantime they're willin' to pick up anything eatable that comes handy.
White Fang
6
Keep busy, young man, do the first thing that comes handy.
Dollars and Sense
7
Say you're an actor out of a job, or anything that comes handy.
The Survivor
8
He lets fly with a coupling-pin if that's what comes handy.
Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also t...
9
When I want one I'll make it with the nearest implement that comes handy.
Betty Trevor
10
It always comes handy, and is acceptable even to company.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870
11
They don't know, themselves-theyjust work whichever arm comes handy.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
12
Oh, I've no grudge against an honest penny turned in any way that comes handy.
Driven Back to Eden
13
To genius everything comes handy and nothing amiss.
The Big Otter
14
A man throttling a serpent may be excused using anything that comes handy for the purpose.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
15
Give me the first that comes handy.
Cast Upon the Breakers
16
Let's dry ourselves, and take up the first thing that comes handy.... Timmy Durrant's notebook of scientific observations.
Jacob's Room
This collocation consists of:
Comes handy through the time
Comes handy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common