Thursday, January 13, 2011

Throw In The Towel








Throwing in the Towel:
When you throw in the towel what you are doing is giving up. You are quitting because you have decided that you can’t take it any more. You are admitting surrender or defeat.
Its original form, to throw up the sponge, appears in “The Slang Dictionary” (1860). The reference is to the sponges used to cleanse combatants’ faces at prize fights. One contestant’s manager throwing in the sponge would signal that, as that side had had enough, the sponge was no longer required. In recent years, towels have been substituted for sponges at fights, and consequently in the expression too.

3 comments:

mackson said...

Great information and great pictures....Life can get crazy sometimes and make you give up...But faith is what keeps me going...I know that it could be worse...but you will never know the good that can come if you just give up

Unknown said...

They can surrender to us!

Wonder Man said...

the last one can do whatever he wants

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