本文从认知的角度探究英汉两种语言中有关“手”的习语,进一步论证习语是有理据并可推导的,并以隐喻、转喻、常识三种认知机制为基点,分析解释英汉“手”的习语,以促进人们对“手”及其他习语意义及其概念结构的进一步了解。 This article explores idioms related to “hands” in English and Chinese from the perspective of cognition, and further argues that idioms are well-founded and deducible, and based on three cognitive mechanisms: metaphor, metonymy, and common sense. The idioms of English and Chinese “hands” are used to promote people’s understanding of the meaning and conceptual structure of “hands” and other idioms.