a hot hand



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a hot hand

A continuous period of great success, luck, or fortune; a winning streak. I'm not usually any good at poker, but I had a hot hand last night. Their forward seems to have a hot hand in the game tonight!
See also: hand, hot

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Hymie-Yiddish
Athy['æθi]
Yehoshua-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Helder-Portuguese
InaEE-nə (English), IE-nə (English), EE-nah (Swedish, Dutch, Limburgish)English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Limburgish, Croatian
JÓZsefYO-zhefHungarian