42. PHRASE : V inflects.
If you take something or someone in hand, you take control or responsibility over them, especially in order to improve them:
- I hope that Parliament will soon take the NHS in hand.
... Cobuild
take someone in hand:
Fig. to take control of someone; to assume the responsibility of guiding someone:
- Someone is going to have to take Tim in hand and help him out.
- Alice decided that she would take the new worker in hand.
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