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Significados de drop by the wayside en inglés

portugués
desistir
catalán
rendir-se
español
tirar la toalla

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

tirar la toalla
Uso de drop by the wayside en inglés
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Now and again a man utterly worn out would drop by the wayside.
France in the Nineteenth Century
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Sixpence dropped by the wayside, and a whole family made wretched!
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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I was one of the twenty-seven; eight dropped by the wayside; we ended nineteen.
Daddy-Long-Legs
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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