- throw up hands
- throw up (your) hands
to stop trying to do something because it is too difficult.
Instead of throwing up our hands, we found a way to fix this thing.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
throw up hands
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throw — throw1 W1S1 [θrəu US θrou] v past tense threw [θru:] past participle thrown [θrəun US θroun] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(throw a ball/stone etc)¦ 2¦(put something carelessly)¦ 3¦(push roughly/violently)¦ 4¦(make somebody fall)¦ 5¦(move hands/head etc)¦ 6¦(confuse … Dictionary of contemporary English
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