give right arm
give (one's) right arm
A figurative phrase that highlights one's interest in having something or eagerness to do something. A: "I'm going to the concert on Saturday!" B: "Aw man, I would give my right arm to have tickets to that!" I would give my right arm for your sister's gorgeous hair!
See also: arm, give, right
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
give one's right arm (for someone or something)
and give one's eyeteeth (for someone or something) Fig. to be willing to give something of great value for someone or something. I'd give my right arm for a nice cool drink. I'd give my eyeteeth to be there.
See also: arm, give, right
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
give one's right arm, to
To go to any lengths. Also put as cut off one’s right arm for, this term expresses a major sacrifice for all but the left-handed, perhaps even more so than to give one’s eyeteeth. An Americanism from the twentieth century, it presumably was well known by the time Robert G. Dean used it in Layoff (1942): “He’d cut off his right arm for her, as the saying goes.”
See also: give, right
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- a bird in hand
- a bird in the hand
- a/the feel of (something)
- (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
- a fast talker
- a straw will show which way the wind blows
- a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
- a crack at (someone or something)
- all right
- (you) wanna make something of it?