Anonymous

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Anonymous

Give a Man a Fish https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dicti... It is more worthwhile to teach someone to do something (for themselves) than to do it for them (on an ongoing basis). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/give_a_ma...

Anonymous

give them something to make them happy, to get them to shut up or stop complaining. Something to occupy their minds and stop bothering us.

Anonymous

In some circus acts or zoos trained seals bark for their trainer to throw them a fish. "Throw them a fish" is an insult meaning their noise is as meaningless as a seal's barking.

Anonymous

Might be a variation of 'throw him a bone'.

Anonymous

It means to give them something to keep them quiet and happy.