2007-01-09 09:45:35 · 6 answers · asked by BRAINS! 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It means to give up your search, because whatever you're looking for isn't real. You're "chasing a rainbow."
In essence, you're searching for a "ghost," something that doesn't exist.
2007-01-13 06:05:55 · answer #1 · answered by nova30180 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello
Usually when someone tells someone to give up the ghost it means quit the chase, stop searching.
However I have also heard it used in the terminology of wanting some to die. Like a nicer way of saying you wanted that person dead.
Hope that helped.
2007-01-09 09:51:09 · answer #2 · answered by justmetisher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
give up the ghost
1 to die
2 HUMOROUS If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working:
We've had the same TV for over ten years and it's just given up the ghost.
3 to stop trying to do something because you know that you will not succeed:
All I'd cherished from early childhood had been denied me, so I simply gave up the ghost.
2007-01-09 10:53:28 · answer #3 · answered by lion_tiger182 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you asked you best friend for 100 every day,
and every day he said no...
at some point you would quit asking.
thus giving up the ghost!
like, I wouldn't give joe any money so he finally gave up the ghost on that ,
now he just takes what his mom gives him.
get it now?? :)
2007-01-09 10:00:14 · answer #4 · answered by to tell ya the truth........... 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, to die. To not hold on any more. To let the ghost leave you, which cuts your existence from this mortal realm.
2007-01-09 09:49:27 · answer #5 · answered by Lady Ettejin of Wern 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
to die - the "ghost" leaves the body
2007-01-09 09:59:41 · answer #6 · answered by Dizney 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋