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• Thread starter Thread starter Silver
• Start date Start date Sep 27, 2010

Silver

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Chongqing Chinese,Cantonese,Sichuan dialect Hi all, I wonder what does it mean by "give someone a big hand" in this sentence? Let's give him a big hand for being here today.​ Thanks​

owlman5

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Colorado English-US This means "Let's all applaud/clap hands for him".

Silver

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Chongqing Chinese,Cantonese,Sichuan dialect Hi, O, "for him" or "for his coming here today"? Thanks

owlman5

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Colorado English-US It really amounts to the same thing. When an audience claps for somebody, it claps because that person came to the event.

Sun14

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Hong Kong Chinese

owlman5 said: This means "Let's all applaud/clap hands for him". Click to expand...

If I mean "Let's all applaud/clap hands for them", is it idiomatic to say "Let's give them a big hand?" I just think them and a big hand look contradicted.

Hermione Golightly

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London British English Yes, it is idiomatic and colloquial. 'Them' means 'to them' or 'for them', an indirect object. The pronoun can be placed before the direct object, which is 'a big hand'. Y

You little ripper!

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Australia Australian English

Sun14 said: "Let's give them a big hand?" Click to expand...

Sun14

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Hong Kong Chinese

Hermione Golightly said: Yes, it is idiomatic and colloquial. 'Them' means 'to them' or 'for them', an indirect object. The pronoun can be placed before the direct object, which is 'a big hand'. Click to expand...

You little ripper! said: Click to expand...

Got it. Thank you very much. R

Rover_KE

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Northwest England - near Blackburn, Lancashire British English

Sun14 said: If I mean "Let's all applaud/clap hands for them", is it idiomatic to say "Let's give them a big hand?" Click to expand...

Put the question mark outside the quotation marks.

Sun14

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Hong Kong Chinese

Rover_KE said: Put the question mark outside the quotation marks. Click to expand...

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