give a handle
Example Sentences
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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 Sutherland, George
The "Specimens" would give a handle to it, which the poems might seem to want.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
I should conceive it necessary, therefore, rather to submit with patience to their repeated delays than give a handle to the British party at Court.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII by Sparks, Jared
I have suffered too much from calumny to give a handle for evil-speaking.
From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Over-subtlety in the leader of a party tends to perplex friends and give a handle to opponents.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
