IDIOM: GIVE OR TAKE

Good morning / afternoon / evening everyone, depending on when you are reading this. Welcome back to the Daily Vitamin.

Today I wanted to go over an expression that we looked at over 11 years ago. 

Today's expression is: GIVE OR TAKE

Meaning: used to indicate that an amount is approximate. That is, it could be a little more or a little less than the actual amount.

Example 1:
The drive from New York to San Franciso will take 43 hours, give or take a couple of hours. 

Example 2:
Tarragona has a population of around 132,300 people, give or take a few thousand people. (So, the population might be slightly more than 132,300 people, or slightly less.)

If you would like to see the Daily Vitamin that we did about this phrase in December of 2012, you can access it at the following link: 
https://www.ziggurat.es/lecciones-ingles/give-or-take/2023/

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