give up the ghost | Idiomator

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)To cease clinging to life; todie.Synonyms:yield up the ghost,yield the ghost;see alsoThesaurus:die1611,The Holy Bible,[…](King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker,[…],→OCLC,Mark15:37:And Ieſus cryed with a loude voice, andgaue vp the ghoſt.; (intransitive,idiomatic,figuratively)Toquit; to cease functioning.My old computer finallygave up the ghostthe other day.1997October 10, Interplay Productions with Dragonplay,Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game,v1.1, spoken by Vault 13 Overseer (Kenneth Mars),Irvine: Interplay Productions, Windows, scene: Overseer Briefing:We've got a problem. A big one. The controller chip for our water purification system hasgiven up the ghost. We can't make another one and the process is too complicated for a work-around system. Simply put, we're running out of drinking water. No water, no Vault.; (intransitive,withof)To cede a commitment to or identification with.1993February 8, “A Magical History Tour”, inTime:But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready togive up the ghostof his creative past.1995,Bad Boys:Burnett holds the door while Lowrey holds Francine. She's broken, crying, andgiving up the ghostof her past.2000January 14, Kevin Maney, “Gates closes an era Microsoft prepares to lay out a road map”, inUSA Today:Its Windows CE, ostensibly for consumer electronics, is flailing, largely because Microsoft has taken a PC mentality to develop CE, unable togive up the ghostof its heritage.

Examples:

EN: A story about a shipwrecked sailor who was just about to give up the ghost, then he landed on the beautiful shore of a paradise island.
ES: La historia de un marino naufragado al borde de la muerte que fue a para a una isla paradisiaca.
EN: Their shadows seem a canopy most fatal, under which our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.
ES: Sus sombras semejan al más funesto dosel, bajo el cual se cobijan nuestro ejércitos, prontos a entregar su alma.
EN: Well, when I was wanderin' alone and forsaken, just about the time I was ready to give up the ghost, I said to myself, "Hang on.
ES: Bueno, estaba vagabundeando, sólo y perdido, y justo en el momento en el que iba a rendirme, me dije a mí mismo: "Espera. "
EN: They've been divorced a long time but she still can't give up the ghost.
ES: Hace mucho que están divorciados, pero ella aún no puede renunciar al fantasma.
EN: Now, there' s a place for an Irishman to give up the ghost. I ' m angry.
ES: ¡por eso un irlandés pierde toda piedad!
EN: Why don't ya give up the ghost?
ES: Déjalo ya.
EN: This one's about to give up the ghost.
ES: Ésta está a punto de reventar.
EN: But come on, honey. Don't give up the ghost.
ES: Pero vamos, cariño, no te rindas.
EN: Don't ask so many questions or I'll give up the ghost at this altitude.
ES: No preguntes tanto, que yo también me rendiré... - con esta cuesta.
EN: A car, just like men, can give up the ghost.
ES: Los coches, como los hombres, pueden rendirse.
EN: Men, like machines, can give up the ghost.
ES: Los hombres, igual que las máquinas, pueden rendirse.
EN: Sometimes, when you're idle, you give up the ghost.
ES: A veces, cuando estás ocioso, también te rindes.
EN: When a relationship dies, do we ever really give up the ghost?
ES: Cuando una relación muere, ¿alguna vez dejamos ese fantasma?
EN: Hey, that 2002 finally give up the ghost on you?
ES: ¿Finalmente te dejo de a pie ese 2002?
EN: Because I 100% guarantee that the victim... is going to eat grass by the root, push up daisies... and give up the ghost to his Maker.
ES: Porque conmigo es cien por ciento de garantía... de que la víctima va a comer césped por la raíz... va a quedar con los pies para arriba, ¡y va rendir su alma al Creador!

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