What is the meaning of GIVE UP-THE-GHOST. Phrases containing GIVE UP-THE-GHOST
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Give up the ghost is slang for to expire, break−down, totally malfunction from age or use.
Verb. To applaud, show one's appreciation. E.g."Give it up for this week's guest celebrity..." [Orig. U.S.]
Give the air is British slang for to get rid of, to dismiss.
Give five is American slang for to greet someone by hand.
A request to please applaud for something. "Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for . . ."Â
Quit, give up, surrender.
give up on something ‘I may as well give it away.’
Give the slip is slang for to escape from.
interj give up: When are you going to stop watching telly and get your homework done? / Jesus mum, give over!
Give up the digits is American slang for to give out one's telephone number.
Give the rinky−dink is American slang for to cheat or swindle a person.
When a female gives up her virginity before the right time, usually before marriage. "Girl, why you given up the gold . . . you gonna be bankrupt later!"Â
Give up the ship is slang for surrender, give up.
Tuff-up, get back on yer horse, don't back down, don't give up, and do the best you can with the hand you're dealt, give it all you've got.
, as in “to give something the up-and-down†A look
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adv.
To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements.
adv.
To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent.
adv.
Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.
n.
To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.
prep.
From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.
v. t.
To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
a.
Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.
n.
To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
n.
To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
n.
To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.
n.
To pledge; as, to give one's word.
v. t.
To give.
imp.
of Give
v. i.
To give a gift or gifts.
n.
To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
p. p.
of Give
v. t. & i.
To give.
v. t.
To give up wholly.
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