
Sometimes they are not idioms but phrases that some people say as my wife says:
"don't compare shit to apples" - something is very poor quality
"tears are leaking on my back" - it's so funny
etc

But if you have a verbal debate with someone, you can say "I give up"?On 2004-06-23 18:39, Spirit wrote:
If you "give up" it means you abandon something, or surrender it. You might "give up" your wallet to a thief. It's also common to use this when you have stopped some bad habit: "I have given up cigarettes".
To "give in" means you accept something as inevitable. "I have given in to cigarettes" means that you accept that you will always be a smoker. They have beaten your will.