"give someone the air" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives someone the air",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving someone the air",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave someone the air",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given someone the air",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> someone the air"
      },
      "expansion": "give someone the air (third-person singular simple present gives someone the air, present participle giving someone the air, simple past gave someone the air, past participle given someone the air)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927, Sunset, volume 59, page 64",
          "text": "“The slick-haired dame's give him the air!” he says.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 218, page 24",
          "text": "Mrs. Mac turned back toward downtown and I said, \"What do you mean my girl gave me the air? […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things",
          "text": "Soon, you might think, a lone figure dressed in tails and a top-hat — Fred Astaire, or maybe Gene Kelly — would appear and dance his way from one of those spots to the next, singing about how lonely a fellow could be when his best girl had given him the air and all the bars were closed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To jilt or ditch a lover."
      ],
      "id": "en-give_someone_the_air-en-verb-3uAVXe8I",
      "links": [
        [
          "jilt",
          "jilt"
        ],
        [
          "ditch",
          "ditch"
        ],
        [
          "lover",
          "lover"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated) To jilt or ditch a lover."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give someone the air"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives someone the air",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving someone the air",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave someone the air",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given someone the air",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> someone the air"
      },
      "expansion": "give someone the air (third-person singular simple present gives someone the air, present participle giving someone the air, simple past gave someone the air, past participle given someone the air)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927, Sunset, volume 59, page 64",
          "text": "“The slick-haired dame's give him the air!” he says.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 218, page 24",
          "text": "Mrs. Mac turned back toward downtown and I said, \"What do you mean my girl gave me the air? […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things",
          "text": "Soon, you might think, a lone figure dressed in tails and a top-hat — Fred Astaire, or maybe Gene Kelly — would appear and dance his way from one of those spots to the next, singing about how lonely a fellow could be when his best girl had given him the air and all the bars were closed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To jilt or ditch a lover."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jilt",
          "jilt"
        ],
        [
          "ditch",
          "ditch"
        ],
        [
          "lover",
          "lover"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated) To jilt or ditch a lover."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "give someone the air"
}