throw in the sponge 的定义
- Also, throw in the towel. Give up, acknowledge defeat, as in I can't move this rock; I'm throwing in the sponge, or Bill decided to throw in the towel and resign from his job. This idiom comes from boxing, where formerly a fighter conceded defeat by throwing the sponge or towel used to wipe his face into the ring. [c. 1900]
throw in the sponge 近义词
等同于 cede
throw in the sponge 的近义词 32 个
- capitulate
- communicate
- concede
- give in
- give up
- grant
- hand over
- relinquish
- renounce
- sign over
- transfer
- waive
- abdicate
- accord
- alien
- alienate
- allow
- convey
- drop
- fold
- leave
- resign
- vouchsafe
- yield
- abalienate
- come across with
- deed
- fork over
- make over
- part with
- remise
- throw in the towel
throw in the sponge 的反义词 19 个
更多throw in the sponge例句
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- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
- Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
- If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- That woman meant mischief, or she would never have dared to suggest that a British officer should throw in his lot with hers.
- Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
- If the Turks get hold of a lot of fresh men and throw them upon us during the night,—perhaps they may knock us off into the sea.