hand in glove

1. 1.

   in close cooperation

   “they work hand in glove”

   Synonymshand and glovecooperatively

Questions about hand in glove

What does hand in glove mean?

hand in glove means "in close cooperation".

What is another word for hand in glove?

Close synonyms include hand and glove, cooperatively. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand in glove a common word?

hand in glove 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.