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To quit in defeat. The phrase comes from boxing, in which a fighter indicates surrender by throwing a towel into the ring: “After losing the election, he threw in the towel on his political career.”

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This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
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Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
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If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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That woman meant mischief, or she would never have dared to suggest that a British officer should throw in his lot with hers.
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Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
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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.
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