Definition of 'to have your hands full'
If you have your hands full with something, you are very busy because of it. She had her hands full with new arrivals.
What does the phrase hands full mean?
: to be very busy She'll have her hands full with the new baby.
When someone is a hand full?
If you say that someone, especially a child, is a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control. [informal] Zara can be a handful sometimes. Synonyms: nuisance, bother, pest, pain in the neck [informal] More Synonyms of handful.
