Don't throw your hand. (2025)

Hi, Everybody!

What does it mean in english "Don't throw your hand." and "letting" how it's say?

Thanks Everybody.

Rock "song" lyrics are notorious for not making any sense. "throw your hand" doesn't make any sense to me.

To "throw in one's hand" is a poker term meaning to give up, concede defeat. During the betting rounds of draw poker, each player holds his cards so that only he can see their suites and values. A player who doesn't think he can win the hand and drops out of the betting "throws in his hand" by placing his cards face down in the center of the table. The betting may continue among the other players but the player who has "thrown in his hand" can not win.

Thanks you Fabulist for your answer!

Would be a slang in English?

There is a sense in which to throw a hand could be meaning 8 in the WR dictionary:

throw: informal lose (a race or contest) intentionally, especially in return for a bribe.

If you threw a hand, you would intentionally lose from a winning position, probably for a bribe.

I've no idea if that is the intended meaning here.

Sorry that this is a very late response to the question however, I have just seen it and to me the answer was never in question.

If you "throw your hand" in a game of poker, you are giving up that round. You don't think that what you hold (in your hand of cards), is good enough to win, so you give up. You litterally throw your cards into the middle of the table. Poker is an odd game. Even a terrible hand could win if you are good at bluffing, but by throwing them in, you are out and will no longer continue. You have no chance now, however slim, of being sucessfull.

In the context of this song, "your hand", I believe, means "your life". If you feel so low and depressed that you don't think you have anything good in your life and nothing worth carrrying on for, then you may be tempted to "throw your hand" or commit suicide. So "Don't throw your hand" translates to me as "don't throw away your life" or "don't commit suicide".

I think this was voted as the most depressing song ever, but I disagree. It's a song about not giving up. It's a song describing the utter lows that many of us reach at some point during our life. When you are at such a low point, know that you are not alone even if you feel you are. Things can often get better, you may be sucessfull but if you throw your hand, you are out forever.

planet_chetwynd said:

If you "throw your hand" in a game of poker, you are giving up that round.

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I've watched some poker videos recently, and a player that "throws" is not discarding their hand, they are "going all in", that is, they are betting everything they have. They continue playing. But "throw in your hand" means what post #4 says: discard your hand, "fold", stop playing this round, give up this round.

I haven't heard "throw your hand" in any poker videos. But your comment about the meaning in the song sounds good.

I don't trust song lyrics. They often aren't correct grammar. Some of them don't even make sense.