give someone line
English
Etymology
Referring to the use of a fishing line.
Verb
give someone line
- To allow a person more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him/her.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for give someone line in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)