throw in the sponge
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So why not throw in the sponge on Laetrile?
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The stockholders, ready to throw in the sponge, voted to liquidate.
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Congress was ready this week to throw in the sponge.
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Retired Escondido, Calif. Some men would have been ready to throw in the sponge.
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The poor kid was hangin' on the ropes waitin' for somebody to throw in the sponge.
From Kid Scanlan by Witwer, H. C. (Harry Charles)
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