to set about (a task) · to raise a hand to hit sb · to touch; to handle (typically used in cautioning sb *not* to touch sth)

The doctor decided to operate at once.

Are you a hands-on person?

Okay. Hear me out. One, he started it. Two, I have important things on me. Three, everyone can testify that at the time, I told him not to hit me.

How can you accuse me of such a thing? I would never lay a hand on my child.

As she's a very practical person, she often fixes her friends' cars.