hands off

See also: hands-off

English

Alternative forms

• hands-off (adjective)

Pronunciation

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Interjection

hands off!

1. (informal) Refrain from touching; refrain from initiating any physical contact.
2. (nautical, historical) Cut off a hand: decreed by old admiralty law as punishment for pulling a knife during a fight with a shipmate.

Translations

don't touch!

• Albanian: mos prek!, shporru!
• Arabic: اِرْفَعْ يَدَكَ m (irfaʕ yadaka), اِرْفَعي يَدَكِ f

  Moroccan Arabic: قلع يدك (glaʕ yeddak)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勿動手！ / 勿动手！ (wù dòngshǒu!), 不許碰！ / 不许碰！ (bù xǔpèng!)

• Czech: ruce pryč!, nesahat!
• Dutch: afblijven! (nl), niet aanraken!
• Estonian: käed eemale!
• Finnish: irti! (fi), näpit irti!
• French: pas touche ! (fr), bas les pattes ! (fr)
• German: Finger weg!, Hände weg!
• Greek: κάτω τα χέρια! (káto ta chéria!)
• Hungarian: el a kezekkel!, ne nyúlj hozzá!
• Italian: giù le mani!, giù le zampe!
• Japanese: 触るな！ (さわるな！, sawaru na!)
• Malayalam: തൊടരുത്! (toṭarutŭ!)
• Portuguese: tira as mãos!, tira a mão!
• Russian: ру́ки прочь! (rúki pročʹ!)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: да̏ље руке!, не ди́рати!

  Roman: dȁlje ruke!, ne dírati!

• Spanish: ¡saca las manos!
• Swedish: inte röra!, bort med händerna!, bort med tassarna!
• Tamil: தொடாதே! (toṭātē!)

cut off a hand!

• Dutch: hand af!

Adjective

hands off (comparative more hands off, superlative most hands off)

1. Tending not to interfere with the decisions and actions of other people (employees, subjects, etc.).

   Antonym: hands-on

   a hands-off policy

Translations

not interfering with others' decisions and actions

• Arabic: عَدَمُ ٱلتَّدَخُّلِ m (ʕadamu t-tadaḵḵuli)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放手的 (zh) (fàngshǒu de), 不干涉的 (zh) (bùgānshè de)

• Dutch: laat maar doen
• Estonian: mittesekkumis
• Finnish: puuttumaton, sekaantumaton
• French: laissez-faire (fr)
• German: tun lassen
• Italian: lassista, permissivo (it)
• Japanese: 傍観的 (ぼうかんてき, bōkan-teki)
• Portuguese: de não interferência/envolvimento, não-intervencionista
• Tamil: தலையிடாத (talaiyiṭāta)

See also

• handless
• hands down
• hands-free
• unhand

 

Verb

hands off

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hand off

Anagrams

• hand-offs, handoffs