Word Meaning お手上げ
おてあげ
oteage
お手上げ is read as おてあげ (oteage) and means being done for.
Meaning
English
- being done for
- giving up
- being in a hopeless situation
- not knowing what to do
- being brought to one's knees
- throwing up (one's) hands
Reading
Kana
おてあげ
Romaji
oteage
Writing Variants
- お手あげ おてあげ oteage
Stroke Sequence
4 Characters • 15 Total StrokesStudy Signals and Categories
Related Vocabulary
Max. 12Example Sentences
6お手上げだ。
I'm at a complete loss!
本当にお手上げだ。
I'm really up a tree.
この問題にはお手上げだ。
This problem baffles me.
これ、私にはお手上げだよ。
This is above me.
何もかもが難しい。お手上げだい。
Everything is hard. I'm throwing in the towel.
火災で全てのコンピューターディスクが駄目になってしまった時、会社はもうお手上げの状況だった。
The company faced a major interruption in business when a fire destroyed their archive of computer hard drives and optical discs.