to give up something as a bad job
[give] {sth} up as a bad jobto give up something as a bad job
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to decide that it is impossible to help something succeed because there seems to be no hope
Idiom
Informal
例
After months of flooding, the construction workers had to give up rebuilding the damaged bridge as a bad job.
The firefighters gave up trying to control the five-alarm fire and had to let it burn itself out as a bad job.
