Timeline for "Give your best" vs. "give of your best"
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| Nov 18, 2012 at 3:57 | comment | added | lex | In the latter usage, of and from are synonymous: to give of one's best is to give from one's best. Give one's best tend more to connote quantitativeness, whether literally or figuratively. Giving of one's best tends to take more of a qualitative connotation. It is certainly true that | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 12:59 | history | answered | user1579 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |