(someone's) hands are full



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(someone's) hands are full

Someone is too busy or has too much going on to be able to do or become involved with anything else. I really wish that I could babysit for you tonight, but I'm afraid my hands are full at the moment. Normally I'd pass a project like this on to Dave, but his hands are quite full this month.
See also: full, hand

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Paulo-Portuguese, Galician
Margauxmar-GOFrench
Voula-Greek
Katica-Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian
MarilynnMER-ə-lin, MER-lin, MAR-ə-lin, MAR-linEnglish
Ulisses-Portuguese