Idiom
give someone grief
Meaning
To hassle or abuse someone.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My brother likes to give me grief about my messy room.”
“The manager started to give the new employee grief for arriving five minutes late to the shift.”
“Despite his best efforts to complete the project on time, his supervisor continued to give him grief regarding the minor errors in the final report.”
Examples
simple
“My brother likes to give me grief about my messy room.”
contextual
“The manager started to give the new employee grief for arriving five minutes late to the shift.”
complex
“Despite his best efforts to complete the project on time, his supervisor continued to give him grief regarding the minor errors in the final report.”
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