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单词 to give one's arm
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to give (also offer) one's arm
(a) to give (also offer) one's arm: to invite a person to hold or lean on one's arm in order to provide assistance or support.figurative in quot. 1624.
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1624 F. Quarles Iob Militant ix. sig. G4 Heauen neuer failes the soule that is vpright, Nor offers arme to the base Hypocrite.
1739 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) VIII. 338/2 He gave her his arm to help her out of her chaise.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xliii. 169 I offered my arm: She was pleased to lean upon it.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. xi. 279 Give Anne your arm... She is rather done for this morning.
1843 Edinb. Rev. Feb. 38 I did my best for the young man. I once gave him my arm all the way from White's to Watiers'.
1934 J. Buchan Free Fishers xix. 314 Give her your arm..and don't stand glowering like a stookie.
2010 Observer (Nexis) 22 Aug. (Mag.) 40 He offers his arm as we cross the street, and I feel less like a rockstar.
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