have (got) to hand it to someone

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› to recognize that someone deserves respect for what the person did: You’ve got to hand it to her, she built that cabin herself.

(Definition of have (got) to hand it to someone from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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