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Give someone grief
verb
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Definitions
1.
verb
To cause pain to someone.
"Her elbow has been giving her grief."
2.
verb
To hassle or abuse someone.
"Fred was giving me grief over the money I owed him."
Synonyms
give someone a hard time
hurt
go hard with someone
gripe
fix someone's wagon
wring
get someone's goat
wrench
offend
wrangle
rustle someone's jimmies
make someone's teeth itch
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