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121give an inch — to agree to part of what someone wants or says. My ex husband never gave an inch on anything we disagreed about, even when I was right. Etymology: based on the saying give someone an inch and they ll take a mile (= if you agree to part of what… …
122give color — To admit an apparent or colorable right in the opposite party. In common law pleading, a plea of confession and avoidance had to give color to the affirmative averments of the complaint, or it would be fatally defective. The giving color was… …
123give color — To admit an apparent or colorable right in the opposite party. In common law pleading, a plea of confession and avoidance had to give color to the affirmative averments of the complaint, or it would be fatally defective. The giving color was… …
124give someone his rights — or[read someone his rights] {v. phr.}, {informal} 1. The act of advising arrested criminals that they have the right to remain silent and that everything they say can be held against them in a court of law; that they have the right to the… …
125give someone his rights — or[read someone his rights] {v. phr.}, {informal} 1. The act of advising arrested criminals that they have the right to remain silent and that everything they say can be held against them in a court of law; that they have the right to the… …
126right to choose — noun The moral or legal entitlement of a pregnant woman to make the full and final decision either to give birth to her child or to abort the fetus. Strict abortion laws have been attacked in the courts, on the gro …
127right of first refusal — noun A provision in a contract that permits a party to that contract or another named party to have an opportunity to purchase, use, or otherwise obtain a specified object before it is offered to any other party. Well, said the publisher, does… …
128give-and-take — Synonyms and related words: abatement of differences, accommodation, adjustment, agency, alternation, arrangement, badinage, balance, ballast, banter, bargain, barter, bartering, battledore and shuttlecock, boomerang, brokerage, buying and… …
