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Idioms and Phrases
Tending toward, inclined to, as in She was given to eating crackers in bed . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
But to-day there were no gifts carried before the tabernacle: no donations were to be given to-day except to the poor.
But do you never feel as if you would like to have a life companion, such as Maud was given to-day?
The Land of Grass is the name given to-day, by the inhabitants, to modern Tartary.
I drink to the very good health of the bride and bridegroom in whose honour this ball is given to-night.'
Orlowskis new ballet is to be given to-day for the first time.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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