Throwing In The Towel

"Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard." 

... E. Joseph Cossman

"With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do."

... Teri Garr

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Throwing In The Towel

Mario Lopez 

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“Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.”

... E. Joseph Cossman

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The Secret Is Out

NOW I know where Maddie stashes her gin!!!!


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Throw In The Towel

Throwing in the Towel:

When you throw in the towel what you are doing is giving up. You are quitting because you have decided that you can’t take it any more. You are admitting surrender or defeat.

Its original form, to throw up the sponge, appears in “The Slang Dictionary” (1860). The reference is to the sponges used to cleanse combatants’ faces at prize fights. One contestant’s manager throwing in the sponge would signal that, as that side had had enough, the sponge was no longer required. In recent years, towels have been substituted for sponges at fights, and consequently in the expression too.

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Pride

Arrogance frowns;  Pride smiles. 

... Mason Cooley

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Throwing In The Towel

These have got to be some of the prettiest towels I've ever seen!