give someone line (English, verb)
expansion: give someone line (third-person singular simple present gives someone line, present participle giving someone line, simple past gave someone line, past participle given someone line)
Senses:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To unreel more fishing line so that a hooked fish has more freedom to tire itself out.
glosses: To allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her.
tags: dated
idiomatic
Forms:
form: gives someone line
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: giving someone line
tags: participle
present
form: gave someone line
tags: past
form: given someone line
tags: participle
past