Hand him (odd phrase)

hand (v.)

To present or provide with m-w

To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively. Wiktionary

In extended use: to deliver, pass on; to transfer, transmit. to hand (also give) (something) to (a person) on a plate

Adventurers and scholars and fishermen began to question the truths about the world handed to them from earlier generations.

The kind words handed to them from every side were richly deserved. OED

By 1974, a district court in Fukuoka handed him a victory. Naoko Wake; American Survivors

Then September handed them a surprise. Early the next morning Willie Joe called. “A woman named Miss Flora said you need yo house lifted. I kin do the job iffen you want." Maxwell Dickinson; A Country Mile

Yet he also handed them a solution, pegging criminality to informality and both to the element that had created the trade and had been devised to do what it was obviously failing to do: the taxi license. Juan Manuel del Nido; Taxis vs. Uber

They wanted Robert Kennedy off their backs, and what better way to do that than by getting rid of the man who'd handed him power on a plate—JFK
RW Press Ltd; JFK Assassination

"The destinies of the world were handed them on a plate in 1920." Herbert C. Pell, quoted in A. M. Schlesinger; The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933