It is when you realize that you can't win and you admit defeat.
"Throw the book at him" IS a sentence.
An idiom that means surrender is to "wave the white flag." A closely related idiom is to "throw in the towel" which means to give up."
It's not an idiom exactly. Romans used to throw Christians into an arena with lions as a form of execution. The phrase has come to mean any situation where someone is put into a situation where there's no way for them to succeed, or into a situation that's far over their head.
Confetti is a bunch of tiny bits of colored paper. You throw it up in the air to make a colorful display in celebration of something. Often, you throw confetti at a party or a parade. If you have ever seen a "ticker tape parade" or a New Year's party on TV, you have seen people throw confetti. This isn't really an idiom -- people are really throwing the paper up in the air.
To mislead;to deceive The image is of someone throwing dust into your eyes so that you cannot see.
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I believe the idiom you're looking for is "You can't trust a person further than you can throw them". The meaning is meant that you cannot trust someone because you can't throw them very far.
"Throw the book at him" IS a sentence.
It's a card idiom. Your "hand" was the set of cards that you were dealt in the game. If you play the hand you were dealt, you don't try to cheat or get out of anything, but work with what you have.
I'm not familiar with that as an idiom, so I imagine it means literally throwing jelly at someone.
An idiom that means surrender is to "wave the white flag." A closely related idiom is to "throw in the towel" which means to give up."
It's not an idiom exactly. Romans used to throw Christians into an arena with lions as a form of execution. The phrase has come to mean any situation where someone is put into a situation where there's no way for them to succeed, or into a situation that's far over their head.
in the cards
It means honest or out in the open. It comes from keeping your cards above the table to make it harder to cheat.
Confetti is a bunch of tiny bits of colored paper. You throw it up in the air to make a colorful display in celebration of something. Often, you throw confetti at a party or a parade. If you have ever seen a "ticker tape parade" or a New Year's party on TV, you have seen people throw confetti. This isn't really an idiom -- people are really throwing the paper up in the air.
To mislead;to deceive The image is of someone throwing dust into your eyes so that you cannot see.
The idiom "throw light upon" means to provide information or insight that helps to clarify or explain a situation, topic, or problem. It is often used to describe shedding light on a particular aspect to gain a better understanding.