Usage of "drop by the wayside"

Portuguese

desistir

Catalan

rendir-se

Spanish

tirar la toalla

Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat.

enter

desistir

Usage of drop by the wayside in English

Now and again a man utterly worn out would drop by the wayside. 
 France in the Nineteenth Century 

Sixpence dropped by the wayside, and a whole family made wretched! 
 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 

I was one of the twenty-seven; eight dropped by the wayside; we ended nineteen. 
 Daddy-Long-Legs 

Clemens was handicapped by having to run in the slippery mud, and soon " dropped by the wayside." 
 Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 2: 1866-1875 

The fellows who are going to stick would simply feel that one weak-kneed chap had dropped by the wayside. 
 Dick Prescott's Fourth Year at West Point / Or, Ready to Drop th... 

One by one our fellow-enumerators had dropped by the wayside, some by mutual agreement, some without any agreement whatever. 
 Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and i... 

When she returned to the soldier she gathered up the flowers which she had dropped by the wayside, and timidly offered them to him. 
 Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories 

Meanwhile Washburn had dropped by the wayside to me 6-2, 6-2 and young Richards and I took up our annual battle. 
 The Art of Lawn Tennis 

Translations for drop by the wayside

Portuguese

desistir abandonar

Catalan

rendir-se deixar desistir llençar la tovallola retirar-se abandonar

Spanish

tirar la toalla desistir rendirse retirarse dejar abandonar

Interface language

Meanings of drop by the wayside in English