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The phrase "rough hands" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to hands that are calloused, hard, and/or rough from physical work. For example, "My father's rough hands showed the signs of a lifetime of hard labor."
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"You cannot touch our pain with your rough hands.
Their boss, Mr. Libby, 53, has rough hands and oil-stained dungarees.
He was 19, an apprentice builder with rough hands and fingers that always had splinters.
He is an affable man with wind-worn skin and rough hands, the result of tending personally to the vines.
When a woman has a one-night stand, her partner has "the rough hands of a working man".
"Oh, my goodness, my rough hands now feel like a baby's bottom," said one Yelp review of the treatment at Sabon's Chelsea store.
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Final dimensions are obtained using rough hand calculations.
He felt my forehead with a thick, rough hand.
He claps a rough hand to your forehead.
Activists, too, felt the rough hand of government.
"Am I going to die?" He put his rough hand on mine and started to cry.
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