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What does throw in the towel mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To quit; to give up.
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If you're struggling to get through your workout, throw in the towel for the day instead of beating up your body even more.
At the same time, he's too much the sissypants mama's boy to actually throw in the towel.
At the hint of logical puzzles we beat a retreat to mystery-mongering and fideism, or else throw in the towel and cast our lot with the skeptics.
This, therefore, is not the time to run out of steam or to throw in the towel.
I will end by saying just one thing: what the Commission has never done in relation to this initiative has been to throw in the towel.
They're probably not quite ready to throw in the towel yet and say this crop is in that big of a trouble.

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