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
例子
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.
