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单词 to sky the wipe
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to sky the wipe (or towel)
d. transitive. Boxing slang (originally and chiefly Australian). to sky the wipe (or towel): (of a boxer or his or her second) to throw (a sponge or towel) into the ring so as to signal defeat. Hence also figurative and in extended use: to admit defeat, to surrender. Cf. to throw up the sponge at sponge n.1 1c, to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel at towel n. 1b.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in
benda1400
sink?a1513
to give over1530
to cry creak?1562
yield1576
to hold up1596
succumb1604
to give in1616
to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629
to cry cravena1634
to give up or cross the cudgels1654
incumb1656
to fall in1667
to knock under1670
to knock under board, under (the) table1692
to strike underc1730
knuckle down1735
to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860
chuck up (the sponge)1864
to throw in one's hand1893
to sky the wipe (or towel)1907
to drop one's bundle1915
to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915
to buckle up1927
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > give in
to sky the wipe (or towel)1907
to roll with the punches1910
to pull one's punches1931
to lead with one's chin1949
1907 G. Siler Inside Facts on Pugilism 192Skied the towel’—A towel or sponge thrown into the ring by the seconds of a beaten fighter to denote his defeat.
1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) xi. 87 Fer 'arf a mo' I 'as a fight; Then conscience skies the wipe... Sez I ‘Orright’.
1918 Gleanings Bee Culture Nov. 557/1 The family all said I would have to retire from active work... However, I..did not like ‘skying the towel’.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 June 27/2 It is generally understood that a boxer must consider himself beaten when his seconds ‘sky the wipe’.
1962 Observer 1 Apr. 17/6 I skied the wipe..in 1931 before wasting did me too much damage.
2013 R. K. DeArment Gunfighter in Gotham i. 19 Fitzsimmons threw in the towel, or ‘skied the wipe’, as the surrender sign was known in the trade.
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