Definition of Give a person line

1. Verb. (idiomatic) to allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her, like a hooked fish that swims away with the line ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Give A Person Line

give a bad name
give a damn
give a good account of oneself
give a gun
give a hang
give a hoot
give a hundred percent
give a light
give a loose
give a man a fish
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
give a monkey's
give a person line (current term)
give a rat's arse
give a ring
give a sneck posset
give about
give against
give an eye-tooth
give and take
give as good as one gets
give away
give away the store

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