{"id":72036,"date":"2019-09-13T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72036"},"modified":"2019-09-13T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T07:35:48","slug":"throw-in-the-towel-under-the-weather-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/throw-in-the-towel-under-the-weather-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw In The Towel | Under The Weather | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To <strong>throw in the towel<\/strong> is to quit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As there was little chance of success, I decided to throw in the towel.<\/li>\n<li>John couldn\u2019t stand Jane\u2019s bad temper, so he threw in the towel and left.<\/li>\n<li>We are not ready to throw in the towel yet. We will persist.<\/li>\n<li>He is not a quitter so I was surprised when he threw in the towel and left.<\/li>\n<li>The fighting lasted for almost two hours and then one guy threw in the towel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other idioms with similar meanings are:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Throw in the sponge; toss in the sponge; call it quits.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t think I can win, so I am calling it quits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Under the weather<\/h3>\n<p>When you are under the weather, you are feeling unwell.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t go to school because I was feeling under the weather.<\/li>\n<li>John is a bit under the weather. I should take him to the doctor.<\/li>\n<li>If you are feeling under the weather, why don\u2019t you consult a doctor?<\/li>\n<li>I must get some rest. I am under the weather.<\/li>\n<li>I am feeling a bit under the weather. I think I have got a cold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Expressions with similar meanings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018I am feeling sick.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018I don\u2019t feel very well.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To throw in the towel is to quit. As there was little chance of success, I decided to throw in the towel. John couldn\u2019t stand Jane\u2019s bad temper, so he threw in the towel&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1180,393,1178,1179],"class_list":["post-72036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-call-it-quits","tag-english-idioms","tag-throw-in-the-towel","tag-under-the-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72037,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72036\/revisions\/72037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}