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
Tomokoto-mo-koJapanese
'Avima'el-Biblical Hebrew
SoniaSON-yə (English), SAWN-yə (English), SO-nyah (Italian)English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian
Xabiersha-bee-ERBasque, Galician
Hrothulf-Anglo-Saxon (Latinized)
Osborne['ɔzbən]