Examples:

• She gave him the elbow because she couldn't bear the way he used to treat her.
• Jonathan has had a broken heart ever since David gave him the elbow.
• The girl must have given him the elbow, Harriet decided.
• Management promptly gave the new accountant the elbow after his miscalculation cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• I won't have anything more to do with you lot till you give him the elbow.
• They'll give me the elbow if they ever find out I came into work drunk yesterday.