See hand over fist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :",
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