词组 | throw in |
释义 | throw in 1. throw in sth • throw sth in to include more things with the thing that you are selling to someone, without increasing the price: ▪ The person selling the house may offer to throw in carpets and curtains as part of the deal. ▪ The price includes two nights in a three-star hotel, with breakfast and a sight-seeing tour thrown in. 2. throw in sth • throw sth in to add something to a performance, a story, an idea etc in order to improve it or make it more interesting: ▪ We could throw in a song or two to liven up the performance. thrown in for good measure (=added to get the result that is wanted) ▪ It's basically a detective story with a little sex thrown in for good measure. 3. throw in your lot with sb/throw your lot in with sb especially BrE to decide to support someone and work with them, so that your future depends on their future: ▪ At first Italy remained neutral, but in 1915 she threw in her lot with the allies and entered the war. ▪ former socialists who had thrown their lot in with the conservatives 4. throw in sth • throw sth in to add a remark or piece of information during a conversation, speech etc: ▪ We were all wishing Debbie luck - even her old rival, Kay Jones, threw in a word or two of encouragement. 5. throw in sb/sth • throw sth/sb in to send soldiers into a battle that has already started: ▪ General Rawlinson continued to throw in his troops, and by midday 100,000 men were involved in the battle. 6. throw in sb • throw sb in to put a new player into a team immediately before or during a match: ▪ So many of our players had injury problems that we had to throw in four new lads from the reserves. 7. throw in sth • throw sth in BrE if you throw in a job, you leave, especially when you are not going to start another job: ▪ She threw in a good job with an insurance company just so she could follow her boyfriend out to Hawaii. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑quit, ↑pack in spoken, ↑chuck in BrE informal throw sb in/into sth usually passive to put someone in prison, especially before they have been judged in a court of law be thrown in jail/prison ▪ Anyone caught selling liquor was likely to get thrown in jail. ▪ Many of the rioters were arrested and thrown into prison. |
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