释义 |
have to hand it to someone informal Used to acknowledge the merit or achievement of someone: I’ve got to hand it to you—you’ve got the magic touch...- For all the bile that's been spilled this year about WFF, I do have to hand it to them, they collected well over 300 movies, and many of them do look intriguing.
- Maybe we were not on top of our game but you just have to hand it to them.
- Observers have been noting for a while that Crossmolina have lost some of their pep, and that is undoubtedly true and understandable, but you have to hand it to them, they keep on grinding out the results nevertheless.
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