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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
    1
    Now and again a man utterly worn out would drop by the wayside.
    France in the Nineteenth Century
    2
    Sixpence dropped by the wayside, and a whole family made wretched!
    The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
    3
    I was one of the twenty-seven; eight dropped by the wayside; we ended nineteen.
    Daddy-Long-Legs
    4
    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
    5
    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...
    6
    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...
    7
    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
    8
    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