Hence, the idiom before hand, meaning do it before the actual event. In the game of poker, if you quibble about rules and regulations before the game, you're being upfront - and honest. If want to vouch for a change of rules after the hand is dealt, you are, well, cheating.
Losing is bad. Being a bad loser is worse.
"Before hand", in short, is the opposite to the idiom "after the fact", or after the actual event.
All right. Here are media examples of "before hand":
1. We’re in the height of a collagen craze, and I get it. Once upon a time if you needed to plump your skin you could get your fill with, well, fillers. Now there’s so many different kinds of collagen on the market that you can swing by your local drug store and slather it on. Or it’s as simple as grabbing a jar or packet of the stuff and slipping it into whatever beverage is closest to hand. You can doll up your water or even slip it into your morning cup of coffee! Easy peasy, amirite? Actually, that last one is a terrible idea.
Though it is tempting to dose your morning cappuccino with collagen powder (because it doesn’t exactly taste amazing) that kind of defeats the whole point of it. For a recent article in The Conversation, scientist and assistant professor of microbiology at Texas A&M University Brooke Russell points out that your collagen powder falls apart at temperatures above body temperature—your steaming hot morning brew turns it into pure gelatin. You know what’s probably not going to give you the health and beauty benefits of collagen? That, literally that.
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