make one's hand | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,archaic)To gainadvantageorprofit.1515, Cardinal Wolsey,Letter from Cardinal Wolsey to the Duke of Suffolk:I have lately written to you, I would not advise you to wade any further in these maters, for it is to be thought that the French king indendeth tomake his handby favoring you in the attaining to the said marriage; which when he shall perceive that by your means he cannot get such things as he desireth, peradventure he shall show some change and alteration in the queen's affairs, whereof great inconvenience might ensue.1584, Jean Calvin,Sermons of Maister Iohn Caluin, Vpon the Booke of Iob, page627:For he that listeth tomake his handby pillage, taketh no thought when he hath done all the wickednesse that can be, because there is no redressse nor any order to be také.1599, Sir John Hayward,Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixth:Now the French King, supposing tomake his handby these rude ravages in England, brake off his treaty of peace, proclaimed hostilitie, and denounced the same by his Embassador to the King.1753, Gilbert Burnet,History of the Reformation of the Church of England:Whereby we think, that he thought tomake his Hand, by his Untruth to his King's Majefty.

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