give it the big one

English

Alternative forms

  • give it the biggun

Verb

give it the big one (third-person singular simple present gives it the big one, present participle giving it the big one, simple past gave it the big one, past participle given it the big one)

  1. (idiomatic, slang, UK) To behave in an arrogant or self-important manner; to boast.
    • 2002, Andy Nicholls, Scally: Confessions of a Category C Football Hooligan‎[1], Ramsbottom: Milo, →ISBN, page 96:
      The only thing they never saw was the window going in and we didn't do that, just the looting. Anyway, this clever plod gives it the big one and tells the judge he saw us do it.
    • 2008, Sally Morgan, My Psychic Life‎[2], London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 240:
      What I'm saying is, I don't want you to go away thinking, Sally Morgan's giving it the big one about how she spoke to the Princess of Wales every day.
    • 2015, Charlotte Crosby, Me Me Me‎[3], London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 164:
      I should have known when I developed my body parts in your womb and you kept me alive through that umbilical cord that you would be the one person who would know what's best for me. Instead I came sliding out of your vagina like Billy Big Balls, refusing breast milk, giving it the big one and I have been getting into trouble ever since.
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