give a handle
Example Sentences
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They contained themselves, knowing that the least indiscretion would give a handle for aggression to the enemies of the good cause.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
So long as he does not give a handle to his enemies to be used against him, he is fairly contented to go on from year to year in a humdrum style.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by George Sutherland
I have suffered too much from calumny to give a handle for evil-speaking.
From Ursula by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
All that could possibly give a handle to criticism," says Marmontel, who was present, "was groaned at or turned into ridicule.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
Thus, the old dame of Malvern, divining aright, our Challis may ask, or hint—"Please your Royal Highness, give a handle to my challice".
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
