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hand it to

Idioms  
  1. Give credit to, congratulate, as in You've got to hand it to her; she knows what she's doing. [c. 1900]


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The students, at least, appear to have learned one useful lesson from them: Always check the source — even when the adults hand it to you.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

It was a night of jubilation in Morocco, but anger in Senegal after the decision to strip the Senegalese national side of their continental football title and hand it to their North African rivals.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

You have to hand it to college football.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Even the lone remaining bear on Wall Street had to hand it to Seagate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

But he’d pull the comics section out and hand it to me.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

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