HAND AND FOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hand and foot mean? 

• HAND AND FOOT (adverb)
  The adverb HAND AND FOOT has 1 sense:

1. in all ways possible

  Familiarity information: HAND AND FOOT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAND AND FOOT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In all ways possible

Context example:

they served him hand and foot

 Context examples 

In an instant I was stunned with a blow and bound hand and foot.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After a short, final struggle he was hoisted, still bound hand and foot, into the spare seat of the little car.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, when we left him, he lay handcuffed hand and foot.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hans refused to touch Dennin, but Edith lashed him securely, hand and foot.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“This is one of them. I know him by that devil's touch upon his brow. Where are your cords, Peterkin? So! Bind him hand and foot. His last hour has come. And you, young man, who may you be?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The envoy further added, that in order to maintain the peace and amity between both empires, his master expected that his brother of Blefuscu would give orders to have me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be punished as a traitor.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And then, step by step, hand and foot, he slowly struggled up the ladder.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

These rogues, whom I had picked up, debauched my other men, and they all formed a conspiracy to seize the ship, and secure me; which they did one morning, rushing into my cabin, and binding me hand and foot, threatening to throw me overboard, if I offered to stir.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Once, the terror of this giddy sweep overpowered me, and for a while I clung on, hand and foot, weak and trembling, unable to search the sea for the missing boats or to behold aught of the sea but that which roared beneath and strove to overwhelm the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)