Citations:throw up the sponge


 * 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 28:
 * After the third reading I just yawned and threw up the sponge. The only connection I could see between Barstow's death and Carlo Maffei was the fact that Wolfe had asked Anna Fiore if she had seen a golf club, so I tossed the paper away and got up.