Advanced English Collocations With The Verb 'Give' | Improve Your English Fluency With Hridhaan

Sorry, what did you say?

Give me your pen.

Give me the pen.

Okay, fine.

Ladies and gentlemen, are you somebody who

knows that give only has one meaning?

That means to give somebody something,

pass it to the person.

Well, in today's lesson I'm going to change that thought

because today's session is all about ten smart English collocations

and idioms that you can use with give.

How give can be used in

various different contexts in English language.

So what are we waiting for?

Let's get started.

The first phrase for today is give a hoot.

Give a hoot basically means to emphasize that you do

not care at all about something, for that matter.

For example, emphasize here means

to focus on something.

To really stress on something is to emphasize on it.

For example, don't give a hoot about what they say.

That means don't stress, don't think too much about what

people say, just do whatever you want to do.

Next example is I don't give

two hoots about his problems.

Two hoots is a very nice way here to express that.

Not just one.

I don't give even two hoots, just emphasizing on it.

I don't stress on what they say.

I do my own thing.

So whenever you want to say do not stress or you want to

say I don't stress, you can say I don't give a hoot.

A lot of times people say I don't give a damn.

Instead of saying I don't give a damn, you can

say I don't give a hoot to what you say.

Here comes the next one.

Give a leg up.

It means to provide one person or something