Idiom
little hand
Meaning
Synonym of hour hand (on a clock face).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The little hand points to three.”
“You can tell it is almost four o'clock because the little hand is near the four.”
“As the little hand approached the midnight mark, the old clock began to chime throughout the quiet house.”
Examples
simple
“The little hand points to three.”
contextual
“You can tell it is almost four o'clock because the little hand is near the four.”
complex
“As the little hand approached the midnight mark, the old clock began to chime throughout the quiet house.”
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