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COME IN HANDY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does come in handy mean?
• COME IN HANDY (verb)
The verb COME IN HANDY has 1 sense:
1. be useful for a certain purpose
Familiarity information: COME IN HANDY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be useful for a certain purpose
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "come in handy" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
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