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To set a sponge (Cookery), to leaven a small mass of flour, to be used in leavening a larger quantity. To throw up the sponge, to give up a contest; ...
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Throwing in the towel was preceded by throwing in the sponge. Sponges were a common ringside accessory as early as ... 'To throw up the sponge,' to submit, give over the struggle, - from the practice of throwing up the sponge used to cleanse the combatants' faces, at a prize~fight, as a signal that the 'mill' is concluded.
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Definition: TO THROW UP THE SPONGE ... 1. To give up a contest; to acknowledge defeat; -- from a custom of the prize ring, the person employed to sponge a pugilist between rounds throwing his sponge in the air in token of defeat. [Cant or Slang] ``He was too brave a man to throw up the sponge to fate.'' --Lowell.
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So the earliest form of the expression was to throw up the sponge (occasionally to throw in the sponge), which dates from sometime before the middle of the nineteenth century. A good example is in that Australian classic Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood, dated 1888: “But it’s no use giving in, Jim.
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Reference > Brewer's Dictionary > Throw Up the Sponge (To). Throw. Throw your Eye on. CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD. E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. ...
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I had to throw that lovely, red, watertight bag away. I wanted to save it, but didn’t have the time to clean it out in the Trader Joe’s bathroom because I was concerned that Little No Limit could either throw up, burst into a nosebleed, or do both any second, and I wanted to get out of the store as quickly as possible.
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Do you remember what it feels like to get carsick or seasick? You need to throw up, but you don't want to ... Well that's what you get for being a conservative Democrat, a bunch of dead rats under your sink. Incidently you may not want to mix bleach and Comet. I did it once and my sponge disintegrated in the solution.
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[Cant or Slang] "He was too brave a man to throw up the sponge to fate." --Lowell. Vegetable sponge. (Bot.) See Loof. Velvet sponge, a fine, soft commercial sponge (Spongia equina , variety meandriniformis) found in Florida and the West Indies.
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[Cant or Slang] "He was too brave a man to throw up the sponge to fate." --Lowell. Vegetable sponge. (Bot.) See Loof. Velvet sponge, a fine, soft commercial sponge (Spongia equina , variety meandriniformis) found in Florida and the West Indies.
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