Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eat out of the palm of someone's hand

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English

Syllables: eat out of the -palm of -some-one's -hand
IPA

48

Scrabble Score

29

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To obey, cooperate with, or believe with no resistance or hesitation; to be completely charmed by.

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, out of, palm, hand.

Example Sentences

"And there I worked with children because I had been a school teacher and children ate out of the palm of my hand."
"By the end of his sixth grade year he had most of the faculty eating out of the palm of his hand (about like James Brolin eats out of Barbara Streisand's. She makes about a hundred million dollars a year off of album sales, and he makes less than a valet at Chilis for that anemic late night cheesy top gun wanna' be imitation show, Tequila gold or something like that) like a thoroughbred on race day eats out of his trainer's, which reminds me of a great old story about how a certain horse never lost a race because of what the trainer had in his hand (no it wasn't a sugar cube Einstein) and when race officials questioned the trainer about what was in fact in his hand, the trainer offered everyone a taste of the aforementioned substance in question (in order to prove his innocence), with the upshot being, only the horse and the persons who sampled the mysterious granular substance could have won the race that day, but I don't have time to tell the story, so maybe next time I will."
"Whether he was trotting out the greatest load of confusing rubbish or whether he was offering substance, I was eating out of the palm of his hand."
"Keith did whatever it took to get the crowd moving. And the crowd ate out of the palm of his hand."
"By 1980 Isaacs was the number one star in the reggae world, touring the UK and the USA extensively, and his live appearances resulted in frenzied crowd scenes, with audiences eating out of the palm of his hand."
"Everyone was eating out of the palm of his hand. Everyone except her."

Etymology

A reference to the way an animal must be tamed before it will eat from someone's palm.

Inflected Forms

eats out of the palm of someone's hand (present, singular) eating out of the palm of someone's hand (participle, present) ate out of the palm of someone's hand (past) eaten out of the palm of someone's hand (participle, past) eat from the palm of someone's hand (alternative)

Phrases

wrap around one's little finger

Frequently Paired Words

wrap around one's little finger

Questions

What does eat out of the palm of someone's hand mean?: To obey, cooperate with, or believe with no resistance or hesitation; to be completely charmed by.
Where does eat out of the palm of someone's hand come from?: A reference to the way an animal must be tamed before it will eat from someone's palm.

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