throw up one's hands

Meaning: (intransitive)Toraisebothhandsin the air in anexasperatedmanner.; (intransitive,idiomatic)Toceaseanattemptbecause it is perceived asdoomed.1884December 10,Mark Twain[pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens],The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)[…], London:Chatto & Windus,[…],→OCLC:I see it warn't a bit of use to try to go ahead—I'dgottothrow up my hands.1987 Scholastic Paperbacks ed.,→ISBN, page 2832001, James Patterson,Cradle and All, Warner Books,→ISBN, page58:I wanted tothrow up my handsand say, "Thanks. See ya." But I couldn't walk away.2007August 22, Oliver Rist, “Does Vista suck?”, inInfoWorld:So to us, the question isn't just "Does Vista suck?" but "Does Vista suck enough that businesses of any size should simplythrow up their handsand migrate over to something else?"

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EN: To my mind, it seems more self-indulgent to throw up one's hands and say,
HI: कभी लगता है हाथ बढाऊँ और छु लूँ,
EN: throw up one's hands - Wiktionary
TE: చేతులు కడుగుకొను - Wiktionary

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