throw up one's hands

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Indicate or express utter hopelessness. For example, Jim was getting nowhere so he threw up his hands and abandoned the argument. This idiom alludes to a traditional gesture for giving up.

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There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
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