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gave

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• ain't got the brains God gave a squirrel
• ain't got the sense God gave geese
• give (one) (one's) head
• give (one) (one's) walking papers
• give (one) a bloody nose
• give (one) a hand
• give (one) a hard time
• give (one) a run for (one's) money
• give (one) a taste of (one's) own medicine
• give (one) enough rope
• give (one) grief
• give (one) Hail Columbia
• give (one) Jesse
• give (one) running shoes
• give (one) the bag
• give (one) the creeps
• give (one) the heave-ho
• give (one) the old heave-ho
• give (one) the pink slip
• give (one) the sack
• give (one's) all
• give (one's) head for the washing
• give (one's) right arm
• give (one's) tuppence (worth)
• give (one's) two cents
• give (one's) two cents' worth
• give (one's) two pennies (worth)
• give (one's) two penn'orth
• give (one's) twopence (worth)
• give (someone) (a lot of) stick
• give (someone) (one's) word
• give (someone) (the) what for
• give (someone) a nudge
• give (someone) a piece of (one's) mind
• give (someone) heart failure
• give (someone) no quarter
• give (someone) the air
• give (someone) the bird
• give (someone) the brush-off
• give (someone) the bum's rush
• give (someone) the business
• give (someone) the can
• give (someone) the chair
• give (someone) the elbow
• give (someone) the fig
• give (someone) the fright of (someone's) life
• give (someone) the go-ahead
• give (someone) the green light
• give (someone) the horn
• give (someone) the length of (one's) tongue
• give (someone) the royal treatment
• give (someone) the shake
• give (someone) the shakes
• give (someone) the stink eye
• give (someone) the third degree
• give (someone) the word
• give (someone) the works
• give (something) (one's) all
• give (something) a go
• give a basket
• give a black eye to (someone or something)
• give a rat's arse
• give a shite
• give a sneck posset
• give away the shop
• give away the store
• give hell to
• give in
• give in to (someone)
• give it a whirl
• give it to (someone)
• give leg bail
• give offense to
• give pap with a hatchet
• give place to
• give rein to (someone or something)
• give someone a bad time
• give the mitten
• give the nod to
• give the wall
• give tongue
• give tongue to
• I gave at the office