GIVE (ONE’S) RIGHT (BODY PART) FOR/TO DO (SOMETHING), GIVE (SOMEONE) A HARD TIME, GIVE (SOMEONE) A PIECE OF (ONE’S) MIND: American English Idioms #93
GIVE (ONE’S) RIGHT (BODY PART) FOR/TO DO (SOMETHING) The idiom “give (one’s) right body part” to do something means to sacrifice one’s time, effort, or something else, in order to achieve the goal. One might say that they gave their left arm to get through the semester. GIVE (ONE’S) RIGHT (BODY PART) FOR/TO DO (SOMETHING)…