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over-attention
over-attention n.
Brit. 
/ˌəʊvə(r)əˈtɛnʃn/
, /ˌəʊvə(r)əˈtɛnʃn/U.S. /ˌoʊvərəˈtɛn(t)ʃən/
/ˌoʊvərəˈtɛn(t)ʃən/ΚΠ
1757 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 26 Poor Mrs. Slater was..taken very ill... We feared..it was..her over-attention to her friends, having the house so very full of company.
1855 A. Trollope Warden viii. 117 His fault, if he had one, was an over-attention to words instead of things.
1988 G. Palmer Politics of Breastfeeding iv. 90 The extremes of bitchiness and horror shown by some adults' over-attention to a baby is more than a cultural habit.
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- to give a person a piece of one's mind
- to give a person a pig of his etc own sow
- to give a person a pig of his her own sow
- to give a person a pig of his own sow
- to give a person a rattle
- to give a person a roasting
- to give a person a run for etc money
- to give a person a run for her money
- to give a person a run for his money
- to give a person a runaround
- to give a person a rush
- to give a person a seeing to
- to give a person a shout
- to give a person a show
- to give a person a show of
- to give a person a sop of the same sauce
- to give a person a tinkle
- to give a person a topper
- to give a person a yell
- to give a person an old-fashioned look
- to give a person an oldfashioned look
- to give a person beans
- to give a person best
- to give a person birth
- to give a person change for