Examples of 'third hand' in a sentence

Meaning of "third hand"

The phrase 'third hand' is commonly used to refer to a situation where someone is indirectly involved in a conversation or situation, often receiving information secondhand or through a third party
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  • A tool used to squeeze caliper brakes against the rim of a wheel, as on a bicycle, thereby allowing adjustments to the brake cable.
  • A second remove from direct communication.
  • Having been relayed by two intermediate sources.
  • Not new, having more than one previous owner.

How to use "third hand" in a sentence

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He needed that third hand on the wheel.
Been hearing about it second and third hand.
Made third hand by your interpretation of them.
I would kind of need a third hand to do that.
His third hand was for beginning the book.
Everything you value is second or third hand.
Sometimes a third hand would be really great.
He uses his head like a third hand.
They are a third hand that does not burn.
Neanderthals used the teeth as a third hand.
On the third hand was the embarrassment.
I had to hear about your heroics third hand.
A third hand completes this entry.
Maybe it was a mistake to hire a junkie as the third hand.
And he has a third hand that pushes on the back.

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Its like having a third hand.
Then a third hand came.
This report was taken third hand.
I need a third hand here.
If you wish to have a third hand.
Third hand in a row.
Most come from second or third hand accounts.
Third hand function.
By the time it reaches the listener it is third hand.
No second or third hand stuff.
Note that we do not normally need a third hand.
Third hand smoke.
My information is second and third hand.
I bought this car third hand with eighty thousand miles on it.
She described it as being like her third hand.
I grew a third hand.
I turn around and hit them with my third hand.
Many clocks have a small third hand indicating seconds on a subsidiary dial.
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.
We have a third hand.
Most everything we get is second and even third hand.
For this reason you should use the third hand to hold small workpieces.
I turned around and shot the killers with my third hand.
Everything you are telling us here is based on third hand information from some traffic police.
He also said he continued to hear stories second and third hand.
I am on my third hand.
Teeth as a result to be using your mouth and teeth as a third hand.
Your old dad was hustling a few third hand buckets of bolts.
On the third hand I was dealt a pair of kings.
Old trick of third hand.
Maybe I will grow a third hand so I can surf online and wank at the same time.
And all this was second and third hand information.
The third hand belongs to St Damaschin.
Hearsay is specifically trying to testify to second or third hand information.
See also Third hand high.

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