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gift that keeps on giving (plural gifts that keep on giving)

1. (idiomatic) Something with ongoing consequences; usually, one with positive ongoing consequences.

   Those flower bulbs that our neighbor gave us are a gift that keeps on giving — they keep blooming year after year.

   1. (slang) A sexually transmitted disease.

      That one-night stand that some tramp gave him is a gift that keeps on giving — he's had syphilis for years now.

      • 2006, Jeannie Cheatham, Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music, page 130:

        She fell for his soulful tenor playing, so she gave him the gift that keeps on giving — the clap.

      • 2007, Doug Giles, A Time to Clash: Papers from a Provocative Pastor, page 202:

        Plus, there's about a 25% chance that you now have the gift that keeps on giving, an STD.

      • 2007, R.H.B. Jackson, Dad and Me, page 462:

        Maybe I was lucky that we did not get together, who knows, maybe she would have given me the gift that keeps on giving.

      • 2010, Michael Salvatore, Between Boyfriends, page 184:

        “You gave me the gift that keeps on giving!” […] “The old man gave Sebastian herpes!”

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