give the royal treatment

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give 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...