to throw away your dreams
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7.4
- phrasal verb
:
renunciar a tus sueños
- You're throwing away your dream!
Examples
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Don't throw away your dreams; keep working hard to achieve them.
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Many people throw away their dreams because they are afraid to fail.
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If you throw away your dreams, you'll never know what you could have achieved.
Synonyms
∞
1.2
To stop trying to do something or accept defeat
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3.8
Stop supporting an idea or plan
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6.3
To give up a right, belief, job, or position officially
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4.8
To stop trying because you know you cannot succeed
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9.9
To publicly promise to give up a belief, habit, or claim
Antonyms
How Hopeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to abandon one's aspirations' is directly derivable from combining 'throw away' (dispose of/remove) with 'dreams' (aspirations); the particle 'away' signals discarding and 'dreams' denotes hopes, so the composite meaning follows naturally. This verb+particle + noun composition is a common, cross-linguistically accessible pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand.
Etymology
Throw away your dreams paints a simple picture: imagine taking your dreams like a piece of paper and using throw away to drop them into a trash bin. This image of throwing away your hopes shows why it means 'to abandon' your plans or wishes for the future.