Примеры употребления для give up the ghost
1. Scroll down for more ... Iraqis celebrate as British troops withdraw from Basra "Just as the British cut and run, give up the ghost and go home, the United States is expanding its commitment to try to stabilise Iraq.
2. If the dividing line between the two parties is that one backs Bush on Iraq and the other does not, the Republicans might as well give up the ghost and nominate Dick Cheney as their presidential standard–bearer.
3. But as with everything, we pay a price." Those who stayed, who did not flee to Peekskill or to the graffiti galleries of the South Bronx or give up the ghost altogether and go into advertising, mastered the survival arts.