throw up the sponge

Language: en

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic,slang,archaic)Togive upacontest; toacknowledgedefeat; tothrow in the towel.1870,James Russell Lowell, “Lessing”, inAmong My Books, Boston, Mass.:Fields, Osgood, & Co.,→OCLC,page330:But he was too brave a man tothrow up the spongeto fate, and had work to do yet.

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