They were not going to kill her out of hand?

I don't want to see any woman killed out of hand, but we will need you when battle is joined, too.

Give no gift without reason or they will think it an offering from fear, and kill you out of hand.

They'll have your money, and if you say the wrong word, you will be killed out of hand.

Even if they killed him out of hand, the fact that he was an alien would make them hunt for us.

Probably what he'd do if we tried is kill us out of hand.

"I cannot allow thousands of my people to be killed out of hand."

If it were the Sixty, why not kill him out of hand?

But there were eight, and he did not want to give them any excuse to kill him out of hand.

It would kill the general out of hand to know his blood was in that.