- give up the ship
- {v. phr.} To stop fighting and surrender; stop trying or hoping to do something. * /"Don't give up the ship, John," said his father when John failed a test./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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give up the ship — {v. phr.} To stop fighting and surrender; stop trying or hoping to do something. * / Don t give up the ship, John, said his father when John failed a test./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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