at hand

It just means that we shouldn’t hold back from clearly communicating the risk at hand and the scale of work that lies ahead.

He had to ignore all the outside chatter and focus on the task at hand.

I was able to sort of stretch so much more because I was kept so alert by the job at hand.

But, he said, if the political speech is not directly relevant to the subject at hand, or isn’t expressed in a respectful, age-appropriate manner, schools probably have a right to restrict it.

Their projects could be written reports or, if their talents lay elsewhere, movies, plays, songs or board games — as long as they showed they had learned the lesson at hand.