GIVE US SOME HAND vs GIVE US ONE HAND

Some examples from the web:

• You guys give us some extra hands we didn't have before.
• Jonesy, give us a hand.
• Billy, give us a hand, mate.
• Perhaps the Tax Agency could give us a hand.
• Give us a hand with that door.
• Give us a hand with this shroud.
• Billy, give us a hand, mate.
• Come and give us a hand.
• Here, Froggie, give us a hand.
• It gives us a hand we can play.
• - Give us a hand, Marty.
• Maybe Harry could give us a hand.
• Come on down and give us a hand.
• Come on, give us a hand.
• Lieutenant, give us a hand here.
• Come on down here and give us a hand.
• He come up to give us a hand.
• We're on our own, and aunt Giacinta gives us a hand.
• Daisy give us a hand, get that cloth.
• He might remember something about Dearing that could give us the upper hand.

Some examples from the web:

• I said the day before yesterday in this Chamber that the Council cannot give us this programme with one hand and take way resources with another.
• Your brother gives with one hand and takes away with the other.
• One hand to give, one hand to receive.
• We do not want to give with one hand and take away with the other.
• We should not give something with one hand while taking it away with the other.
• It happens all too often that we give aid with one hand and take back even more than we have given with the other.
• When we read something like this, we may well wonder about the two-faced role of the EU, which gives with one hand and takes with the other.
• Some countries give tax cuts with one hand and take them back, in the form of VAT hikes and higher local taxes, with the other.
• Fate gives with the one hand, and with the other hand pops his fingers into your backside, pulls your intestines out and douses them with acid.
• Europe now gives with the one hand and takes away with the other.
• When we reach Uppsala, we shall ask the gods why they give with one hand, but take away with the other?
• How can we be satisfied with the existence of these funds, when their only purpose is to give with one hand and take away more with the other?
• Michel Camdessus, a fair man who is still director of the International Monetary Fund, said in his speech at the opening of the UNCTAD conference, and I am now quoting, that the international community gives with one hand and takes away with the other.
• I believe that we are entitled to be proud, but - and this is a point I should like to make to the Commission - we must not give a little with one hand and take away a lot with the other.
• What the government gives with one hand, it somewhat takes it back with the other;
• It is not jumping out of the frying pan into the fire, scarcely coherent, to give aid with one hand and penalise with the other.
• Seriously - give that one a hand, it's pretty great.
• Mr Piebalgs stressed the need "to maintain the EU's role as a champion of the developing world" and agreed that "it would be wrong to give money with one hand and take it away with another policy."
• Or will we continue to give aid with one hand and supply weapons with the other, whilst closing our eyes to the fact that the government is, of course, using that money to pay for those weapons?
• As Mrs Berès said, it is of course untenable to draw a distinction and give us codecision rights in consumer affairs on the one hand, but at the same time, only give us consultation rights in agricultural matters.