give (someone or something) up for lost Idiom

a lost cause

a goal or project that is not worth working for That video store is a lost cause. It has never made a profit.

get lost

go, leave, beat it They told me to get lost, to go home to Mommy.

get lost!

go away

he who hesitates is lost

if you hesitate you may not get another chance If you want to marry Ko, ask her. He who hesitates is lost.

it is better to have loved and lost than never to

you are a better person if you have loved someone - even for a short time Old and alone, the woman often thought of a saying: It is better to have loved and lost... .

lost cause

(See a lost cause)

no love lost

bad feelings, ill will There is no love lost between my father and our next door neighbor.

there's no love lost

they do not like each other, bad blood, hold a grudge There's no love lost between Jay and Pete. They've been fighting since they were boys.

make up for lost time

Idiom(s): make up for lost time

Theme: TIME

to do much of something; to do something fast.
• Because we took so long eating lunch, we have to drive faster to make up for lost time. Otherwise we won't arrive on time.
• At the age of sixty, Bill learned to play golf. Now he plays it every day. He's making up for lost time.

lost-and-found

Idiom(s): lost-and-found

Theme: LOSS

an office or department that handles items that someone has lost that have been found by someone. (Each item is both lost by someone and found by someone. Fixed order.)
• The lost-and-found office had an enormous collection of umbrellas and four sets of false teeth!
• I found a book on the seat of the bus. I turned it in to the driver, who gave it to the lost-and-found office.

give (someone or something) up for lost

To stop advancing or analytic for addition or article because it seems like a abortive task. I haven't been able to acquisition that watch for weeks, so I've accustomed it up for absent at this point.Learn more: give, lost, up

give up for lost

To accede absent or afterwards hope. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated afterwards "give" or afterwards "up." I gave the pizza up for absent aback it didn't access in two hours. We had about accustomed up the bearings for absent aback advice arrived.Learn more: give, lost, up

give addition up for lost

stop assured that a missing being will be begin alive.Learn more: give, lost, someone, up

give somebody/something up for ˈlost

(formal) stop attractive for somebody/something because you no best apprehend to acquisition them/it: The fishermen had been accustomed up for absent in the storm but they accept now accustomed cautiously back.Learn more: give, lost, somebody, something, up

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