| 单词 | to give something up as a bad job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give something up as a bad job P5. to give something up as a bad job and variants: to abandon an undertaking, etc., because it is going very badly; to decide that it is futile to expend further effort on something. ΚΠ 1801 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. May 57 Tompion gave it up for a bad job, and this might be one reason why it was so late before it was completed at the hands of Graham. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales I. xix. 210 The minister of the parish..had frequently entered into argument with him, but quite unsuccessfully and had at last given up the matter, as a bad job. 1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons lxix He had given up religion as a bad job. 1887 G. H. Devol Forty Years Gambler on Mississippi 267 For ten or fifteen years during my early life, the sporting men of the South tried to find a man to whip me, but they couldn't do it, and finally gave it up as a bad job. 1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source 55 My riding lessons had been given up as a bad job. 1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) viii. 239 For a few years a Portuguese garrison mouldered unprovisioned up on its redoubt, until Suqutra was given up as a bad job. < as lemmas |
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