As you can see, the term can be used in other fields of life and, as a matter of fact, people are throwing the towel left, right and center. Here are a few examples:

1. Toshack: Mourinho threw in the towel

John Toshack has launched an astonishing attack on Jose Mourinho, labelling the former Chelsea boss as a quitter who got lucky with the team he inherited and then jumped ship when the going got tough.

Writing his weekly column in Spain's best selling paper Marca, the Wales manager said: "The Special One threw in the towel."

- dailymail.co.uk, October 1, 2007.

2. Tom Friedman Throws in the Towel on Iraq

Finally, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has thrown in the towel on the Iraq War.

"It is now obvious that we are not midwifing democracy in Iraq. We are baby-sitting a civil war," he wrote in his Times column on August 4.

Long the war's leading liberal defender, Friedman came late and reluctantly to the realization that the jig is up.

"We can't throw more good lives after good lives," he wrote.

Beyond the human costs of the quagmire, which the peace movement has long tallied, Friedman also recognized what we in the peace movement have been saying about the security ramifications: "The longer we maintain a unilateral failing strategy in Iraq... the stronger the enemies of freedom will become," Friedman concluded.

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