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Japanese
Etymology
Compound of 御 (o, honorific prefix) + 手 (te, “hand, hands”) + 上げ (age, “raising”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 上げる ageru “to raise something”).
Pronunciation
Noun
お手上げ • (oteage)
- throwing up one's hands: giving up, quitting
- こんなに遅くてはもうお手上げだ。
- Konna ni osokute wa mō oteage da.
- Running this late, it's to the point where we're just giving up.
Usage notes
This term is used as a noun in Japanese. Note that recombining the constituent parts of this phrase to produce the verb phrase 手を上げる (te o ageru) can produce a different meaning, depending on context: “to raise one's hand ”.
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