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throw in the towel
idiom
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.
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Stop having or doing something
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bomb
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break with something
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relinquishment
self-denying
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self-renouncing
self-renunciation
throw
throw in the towel | American Dictionary
throw in the towel
idiom
to admit that you are defeated or cannot do something any more:
Jim beat me for the fourth time, so I threw in the towel.
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