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throw in the towel English

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throw in the towel

— verb (= give up) give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat In the second round, the challenger gave up

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give up throw in quit fall by the wayside drop out drop by the wayside chuck up the sponge capitulate surrender resign give in chuck up chuck in

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