give the royal treatment

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give the royal treatment (third-person singular simple present gives the royal treatment, present participle giving the royal treatment, simple past gave the royal treatment, past participle given the royal treatment)

1. (idiomatic) To treat (someone) extremely well.
   • 2006, Michael Eliot Mehler, Nice Jewish Felon, page 113:

     We would spit in the food of difficult customers and give the royal treatment to those who treated us with respect. I could never comprehend how a patron could treat somebody they entrusted with their food with anything but the utmost of esteem...