throw in the towel

Etymology
From the traditional signal from a boxer's support staff of throwing such an item into a boxing ring to indicate that the contestant cannot continue the match and is forfeiting to the opponent.

Verb

 * 1)  To quit; to give up.

Translations

 * Catalan: llançar la tovallola, tirar la tovallola
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kaste håndklædet i ringen,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: alla andma
 * Finnish: heittää pyyhe kehään
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: bedobja a törülközőt
 * Icelandic: leggja árar í bát, springa á limminu, henda inn handklæðinu
 * Indonesian: melempar handuk
 * Irish: do hata a chaitheamh leis, an tuáille a chaitheamh isteach, do lámh a chaitheamh i bpaca
 * Italian: gettare la spugna, gettare le armi
 * Japanese: 匙を投げる, お手上げ
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: rozkładać ręce, rozłożyć ręce
 * Portuguese: jogar a toalha
 * Russian: подня́ть бе́лый флаг,, , призна́ть своё пораже́ние, призна́ть себя́ побежде́нным, сложи́ть ору́жие
 * Scottish Gaelic: leig an saoghal leis an t-sruth
 * Serbo-Croatian: baciti pušku u šaš
 * Slovak: hadzať flintu do žita
 * Slovene: vreči puško v koruzo
 * Spanish:, botar la toalla
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: rhoi ffidl yn y to