give someone to understand

Meaning: (idiomatic,chieflypassive voice)Totellsomeone, especiallyindirectly; toinsinuate.1920,Katherine Mansfield[pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, inBliss and Other Stories, London:Constable & Company, published1920,→OCLC,page264:Hadn't she explained and described and even—though lightly, of course; she couldn't say such a thing directly—given him to understandthat this was the one unforgivable thing.

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