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great white hope
Idioms and Phrases
Something or someone that is expected to succeed. For example, Mark is the great white hope of the international division . This expression dates from the early 1900s, when heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, who was black, seemed invincible and the term was used for any white opponent who might defeat him. It gained currency as the title of a Broadway play and later (1970) a film. By then it had been transferred to anyone of whom much was expected.Example Sentences
Professional boxing is where the concept of the great white hope — and the Black villain — gained traction.
They are pitied by white liberals, resented by white nationalists and entirely absent in conversations about the next great white hope for rock.
As she told Religion News Service, she was disheartened that Trump ascended to become "the banner, the poster child for the great white hope of evangelicalism, the salvation of the church in America."
“He became the banner, the poster child for the great white hope of evangelicalism, the salvation of the church in America,†she said.
If I try really hard, I can imagine what those Trumpers must feel, as the reign of their great white hope nears its end.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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