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to give to for safekeeping; to empower someone with a responsibility or duty
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Expression: "To give someone a last trade"



 
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Expression: "To give someone a last trade" #1 (permalink) Wed Oct 24, 2007 17:24 pm   Expression: "To give someone a last trade"		  
Hi

I just heard this on TV about a dying person:
Quote:
...when he was given his last trade..."


Could you please tell me what it means?

Tom
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Expression: "To give someone a last trade" #2 (permalink) Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:40 am   Expression: "To give someone a last trade"		  
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Not enough context, Tom, and it is not an idiom-- is 'trade' here an exchange or a vocation or ... ?
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