give it up
Cease your efforts
Give it up is a call to applaud, typically from a performer or host urging an audience to clap: Give it up for our next guest!
The phrase also means to stop trying or surrender: Just give it up—you're not going to win this argument.
In sexual slang, to give it up is to consent to sex: She finally gave it up.
- concedeAdmit something reluctantly
- wave the white flagAcknowledge defeat formally
- throw in the towelConcede defeat voluntarily
- abandonLeave behind permanently
- capitulateYield under pressure
admit defeat · cry uncle · pack it in · take a bow · forfeit · clap · surrender · stop · relinquish · standing ovation · round of applause · applaud · yield · quit · let it go · cheer · drop · resign