take one's football and go home

/T EY1 K W AH0 N EH0 S F UH0 T B AO0 L AH0 N D G OW0 OW0 M/
verb
  1. 1

    Alternative form of take one's ball and go home. [(informal, idiomatic) To cease participating in an activity that has turned to one's disadvantage, especially out of spite, or in a way that prevents others from participating as well.]

Translate “take one's football and go home” into another language

Choose a language below to open the translator with English selected as the source language.

🇪🇸Spanish🇫🇷French🇩🇪German🇸🇦Arabic🇨🇳Chinese Simplified🇯🇵Japanese🇮🇳Hindi🇧🇷Portuguese🇷🇺Russian🇰🇷Korean🇮🇹Italian🇹🇷Turkish
See all 248+ languages
Back to Dictionary