The phrase "gives a hand" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to offer assistance or help to someone. Example: "My neighbor gave me a hand with carrying my groceries up the stairs."
B1 Bush Gives a Hand to Lazio George W. Bush offered his support for Representative Rick A. Lazio's Senate bid, belittling Hillary Rodham Clinton with a familiar critique before an audience of Conservative Party donors in Manhattan.
"You mean you want straight sex?" "Yes," he answers, and when she asks how much he is willing to spend, he says $50. Officer Daniel gives a hand signal, and her superior officer drives up.
Teller also gives a hand shadow performance of Shel Silverstein's "Unicorn," using as a prop the ladder on which Penn has been standing straitjacketed with his head in a noose.
CELESTE M. JOHNSON, chief executive, chief financial officer, technology inventor, product designer, creative director and chief bottle sorter at Obex Inc., operates a business in Stamford that gives new life to other people's trash and also gives a hand to people that others may have given up on.
Towards the last seconds of the video, a bald-looking man passes through the back of the tables in front of the camera and apparently gives a hand signal to the assassin before walking away.
By her own choice or not, Ms. Anderson, wearing raccoon-like black eye shadow and affecting a quavering, high-pitched little girl's voice, gives a hand-scratching, head-twitching, crazy-lady performance that would have done Joan Crawford proud.
"I accepted to give a hand," Mr. Muti said.
"It's a new era when giants give a hand to us," Ms. Jean said.
It still stands ready to give a hand, but will not do so for ever.
Whoever falls is caught or is given a hand up to keep going.
Especially pulling handles, which is basically giving a hand job to the clay.
