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Giving a hand to those being evacuated? (7,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

helping out

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'giving a hand to those' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'being evacuated?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'being' could be 'help' (help is a kind of being) and 'help' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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