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gives the royal treatment

gives the royal treatment is the third-person singular simple present indicative of give the royal treatment.

Meaning of give the royal treatment

Verb

give the royal treatment (third-person singular simple present gives the royal treatment, present participle giving the royal treatment, simple past gave the royal treatment, past participle given the royal treatment)

  1. (idiomatic) To treat (someone) extremely well.
    • We would spit in the food of difficult customers and give the royal treatment to those who treated us with respect. I could never comprehend how a patron could treat somebody they entrusted with their food with anything but the utmost of esteem...2006, Michael Eliot Mehler, Nice Jewish Felon, page 113

Questions about gives the royal treatment

What is gives the royal treatment the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gives the royal treatment is the third-person singular simple present indicative of give the royal treatment.

Words near gives the royal treatment in the dictionary

  1. gives the finger
  2. gives the floor
  3. gives the game away
  4. gives the lie
  5. gives the lie to
  6. gives the royal treatment
  7. gives the sack
  8. gives the stem
  9. gives the time of day
  10. gives the word
  11. gives thought

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