throw up (your) hands

to stop trying to do something because it is too difficult.

Instead of throwing up our hands, we found a way to fix this thing.

• rub salt in the wound
• rub salt into someone's wounds
• rub salt into the wound
• rub salt into wounds
• rub shoulders with
• rub shoulders with someone
• rub someone out
• rub someone's nose in it
• rub someone the wrong way
• rub someone up the wrong way
• rub the wrong way
• rub up the wrong way
• rude awakening
• ruffle feathers
• ruffle someone's feathers
• rule of thumb
• rule out
• rule out something
• rule someone with a rod of iron
• rule the roost
• rule with a rod of iron
• rum do
• rumpy-pumpy
• run across
• run across someone