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hand down

• pass something on to a younger person or a successor.
• "songs are handed down from mother to daughter"
Similar: pass on, pass down, bequeath, will, leave, leave in one's will, make over, endow, gift, transfer, give, transmit, demise, devise,
• announce something, especially a judgement or sentence, formally or publicly.
• "it was the most liberal decision ever handed down by a football authority"

hands down

• easily and decisively.
• "Swindon won hands down"
Similar: easily, effortlessly, with ease, with no trouble, with very little trouble, without effort, with very little effort, by a mile, no sweat,
Opposite: with difficulty,


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