throw/chuck in the towel
Definition
C2 to stop trying to do something because you have realized that you cannot succeed: Three of the original five candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have now thrown in the towel.Stop having or doing something
(Definition of throw/chuck in the towel from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- abdicate verb (KING/QUEEN)
- abdicate verb (NOT DO)
- break with sth phrasal verb
- cede verb
- chuck sth in phrasal verb
- forfeit adjective
- forfeit noun
- forfeit verb
- forgo verb
- forsake verb (STOP)
- give yourself up phrasal verb
- grow out of sth phrasal verb (INTEREST)
- kick the habit idiom
- lay off (sth/sb) phrasal verb
- leave go/hold of sth idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth) phrasal verb
- renounce verb
- renunciation noun
- sacrifice verb (GIVE UP)
- turn your back on sth idiom
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