to hand

English

Readily available; within easy reach; nearby.
- 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March [...] , New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
  Einhorn had a teaching turn [...] And with his son at the university I was the only student he had to hand.
- 2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, "A new dawn for the Electrostars", in RAIL, number 1040, page 26:
  Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot. "It's our version of Formula 1 telemetry," quips Hinze. "It is similar for us to how a pit crew in Formula 1 can understand an issue as the car is coming into the pits - because it has that data to hand already. You know what's wrong before it arrives."