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 Fuller, Arthur B.

At the same time he was equally quick to see that the acquisition would give "a handle to the malcontents."

From Union and Democracy by Johnson, Allen

I have suffered too much from calumny to give a handle for evil-speaking.

From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

Nay, it would seem like cowardice, and only give a handle to your enemies to tax you with it.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

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 Black, Robert