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The phrase "a solid hand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is skilled, reliable, or steady in their actions, often in a context related to work or craftsmanship.
Example: "The carpenter had a solid hand, ensuring that every joint was perfectly aligned."
Alternatives: "a steady hand" or "a skilled hand".
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The guitars pound away, and the drummer just lends a solid hand.
Despite a solid hand with leather pieces, like studded lace-up pants, many of their looks verged on Proenza Schouler's style.
Having previously turned in 12-hour sets in his native London, he's also a solid hand when it comes to keeping a rave on its toes for hours at a time, a skill he'll be effortlessly demonstrating during this All Night Long session within the atmospheric basement of The Shipping Forecast.
What's more, Democrats are entering negotiations with an acute sense that they have a solid hand to play.
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Sure, she talks too fast when her feathers are ruffled and the fact that she's played this game so long has led to a certain level of attrition, but Curran's still just about in the game and played a reasonably solid hand last night.
I shake his hand, a square and solid hand, more in keeping with the mobster and bare-knuckle boxer image he's cultivated of late than the stick-thin, knock-me-over-with-a-feather campness of yesteryear.
It was an important reminder that Lohan, an earner since toddlerhood, has been held up as an object to be desired, then derided, then pitied, then cast away, and that this trajectory might make some psychological sense of her yearning for the seemingly solid hand of a controlling despot, for mafioso-style protection.
Harmon elicited a rise from the crowd when he finally nailed Jones with a solid right hand.
Eric Ericc!" The mood was altered midway through the round when Jones stopped Harding in his tracks with a solid right hand.
But Lewis continued the punishment of Tyson and with 30 seconds left in the sixth round, Tyson looked as if he might go down after a solid right hand by Lewis that struck Tyson flush on the face.
He was ahead on all of the scorecards by round 10, when Foreman landed a solid right hand to his chin to become the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
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