hand and glove, hand-and-glove, pred. or adj. phr.
Also (later) hand in glove.
In constant close relations, on very intimate terms.
| 1680 R. Mansel Narr. Popish Plot 103 Mrs. Cellier, to whom Mr. Willoughby was such a Croney, that they were hand and glove. 1780 Cowper Table T. 173 As if the world and they were hand and glove. 1867 Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxiv. 206 He's not hand-and-glove with Lord Derby. |
| β 1799–1800 Burdon Pursuits Lit. I. 47 (L.) Our author is here hand in glove with Providence. 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. iv, The Doctor is..hand-in-glove with the bishop. 1889 County xxii, Priestman and the new Lady Sandilands are already hand in glove. |