The word "gimme" is considered to be an informal or colloquial way of saying "give me".
It is not commonly used in formal or written English, but it can be used in certain situations to convey a casual or conversational tone. Example: "Hey, could you gimme a hand with these groceries?" (informal and spoken) "May I have a cup of coffee, please?" (formal and written).
He did his best to keep it informal and jokey but he was finding it harder and harder to pick someone out who would ask him a tame gimme.
("True enough, they were civilians of a sort," the Boulder professor had opined, "But innocent? Gimme a break").
And there is far better legal protection to prevent people from being locked up against their will.In this section The doctor is in (the driving seat) Hard decisions Waiting for Godot Burger's revenge Locked up Help from above Arnold the bipartisan Award: legalising drugs Reprints Related items Homelessness: Gimme a roof over my headAug 21st 2003Nevertheless, things have not gone to plan.
Lower interest charges, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, and lower depreciation, the consequence of an investment drought, have certainly helped.In this section Getting back to business Hard numbers Europe's other island Equipping the emergency room Hands off our pensions Gimme a "V" Vote for agony ReprintsBut most important is firms' iron-fisted approach to hiring and pay.
Mr Paul seems to have opened the state-on-state smack talk by accusing New Jersey of having a "gimme gimme gimme" attitude on federal emergency aid related to Hurricane Sandy.
"If you keep people alive, in general you keep them alive in a relatively healthy state and it doesn't cost a lot," says Mr Goldman.The gimme generationOn the other hand, baby-boomers are likely to be more expensive customers than today's older generation.
Under the "gimme five" scheme, Mr Abramoff would refer tribes to Mr Scanlon's public-relations business, and Mr Scanlon would send half the profits back to Mr Abramoff in kickbacks that the tribes did not know about.
With hardly a pause to acknowledge the jobs and wealth firms helpfully create, he promises to intervene in energy and banking markets; to raise corporate taxes; and to foist more apprentices, higher wages, more paternal leave and other gimmes onto company books.
As an Irishman in Detroit, there were no gimmes.
They have helped create a market for independent research houses such as Gimme Credit.
Kathleen Shanley, an analyst at Gimme Credit, recently caused a brief flurry by opining that creditors were withdrawing funds from Washington Mutual (which the company quickly denied).The same trend can be seen for those analysts who cover the overall markets and the economy.
