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SPONGE, THROW IN THE (1)
SPONGE, THROW IN THE (1)
ScnMaster
(
colloquial
)
admit defeat; give up. From the practice by a boxer's
second
(a person who advises a boxer) of throwing a sponge into the
ring
to concede defeat.
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PDC
Volume 8 Approved Glossary