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 Throw Up the Sponge (To).Throwing an Old Shoe for Luck. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Throw your Eye on.
 
Give a glance at. In Latin, oculos [in aliquem] conjicre.   1
       
“Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye
On you young boy.”
       
Shakespeare: King John, iii. 3.
 


 Throw Up the Sponge (To).Throwing an Old Shoe for Luck. 

 
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