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throw up one's hands
throw up one's hands
throw up one's hands
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.
See also:
hand
,
throw
,
up
Common Names:
Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
Abd Allah
‘ahb-DAH:L-lah, ‘ahb-DOOL-lah
Arabic
Haris (1)
-
Bosnian, Urdu, Arabic
FerİHa
-
Turkish
LÜTfİ
-
Turkish
Alexis
ah-LEK-sis
(German)
, al-ek-SEE
(French)
, ə-LEK-sis
(English)
German, French, English, Greek, Ancient Greek
Stiina
STEE:-nah
Finnish
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