a gift is a gift; giving is giving, taking back is stealing (a gift is irrevocable)

(climbing) to give someone more slack / (transitive with à) (informal, figuratively) to cut someone some slack, to give someone some rope, to give someone more leeway

(figuratively, transitive with à) to give one's word, to promise (to someone)

(informal) to let someone guess (used to dramatise something unsurprising.)

(transitive) to bestow, to give in marriage, to marry off

to storm, to attack

(transitive with à) to give the floor to someone, to call on someone, to give someone a chance to speak

(transitive) (transitive with à) to serve (someone) up to (someone), to throw (someone) to the lions

(law, transitive with à) to rule against / (transitive with à) to prove wrong

(law, literary) a gift is a gift; giving is giving, taking back is stealing (a gift is irrevocable)