Взаимозаменяемые наречия

close (или near) at hand -1) близко, рядом, поблизости, тут же, под рукой

Seen close at hand, there is nothing very attractive about these hills... (J.B. Priestley).

Near at hand a small stream flowed with a constant soothing ripple (A.J. Cronin).

2) ¬ не за горами, на носу

After all, few or none realized in those years that emancipation was so close at hand (W. Foster).

The winter was near at hand, she had no clothes, and now she was out of work (Th. Dreiser).