throw something up

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

▪ I. throw sth up phrasal verb before or after object [ threw sth up thrown sth up thrown sth up throws sth up throwing sth up ]
 
JOB
1. UK informal If you throw up your job, you choose to leave it or stop doing it
• He's thrown up his job and gone off to Africa to work for a children's charity.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Stop having or doing something ↑Retiring and resigning from work
 
IDEA
2. to produce new problems or ideas
• The meeting threw up some interesting ideas.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Imagining and conceiving
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▪ II. throw (sth) up phrasal verb before or after object informal [ threw sth up thrown sth up thrown sth up throws sth up throwing sth up ]
<A > to vomit
• I spent the night throwing up.
• He threw up his breakfast all over the back seat of the car.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Vomiting and feelings of sickness
 
• She always throws up on long car journeys.
• When he saw the body, he threw up his lunch.
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