come in handy

1. 1.

   be useful for a certain purpose

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Questions about come in handy

What does come in handy mean?

come in handy means "be useful for a certain purpose".

Is come in handy a common word?

come in handy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.