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单词 to hand it to
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to hand it to
P1. Originally U.S. to hand it to and variants: to concede the superiority of (esp. a person); to give credit to (someone), esp. grudgingly.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > submit to [verb (transitive)] > acknowledge superiority or supremacy of
yield1604
own1653
to give (a person or thing) best1851
to hand it to1901
1901 Morning Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) 30 Sept. 4/2 The Cup race has no less than eight candidates with records of 2:11 ¼, and if anyone can pick the winner before the race, I will have to hand it to him.
1903 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 17 Oct. 6/4 You have got to hand it to Johnny Regan. Call him ‘weak hitter’, ‘staller’, or what you will, the shiftly [sic] little Brooklyn man is there with the defense every time he gets into the ring.
1926 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Blatchington Tangle xli. 279 ‘I must hand it to you, sir,’ the pseudo-American acknowledged.
1965 Listener 30 Sept. 498/1 You've got to hand it to the Jerries, they know how to make cars.
1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxi. 85 I had to hand it to him: he hadn't missed a trick.
2007 M. Bastinado Talent for Surrender vii. 106 I've got to hand it to you, Dan, I couldn't do what you do for a million quid.
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