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hope against hope
Idioms and Phrases
Hope or wish for with little reason or justification, as in I'm hoping against hope that someone will return my wallet . This expression, based on the biblical âWho against hope believed in hopeâ (Romans 4:18), was first recorded in 1813.Example Sentences
I also think we will see an increase in his cognitive decline, which I hope against hope is covered in the mainstream media.
I was there to hope against hope that Laube wouldnât get a break yet again.
Cross your fingers that James can suffer through his bad ankle, and that Davis continues to recover from a sore shoulder injured against Milwaukee, and that Russell keeps shooting and Reaves keeps wowing andâŠwell, cross everything and hope against hope and know that nobody will know anything until this ride finally ends.
And on election night, as his prophecies came true one after another, he got upgraded from âI donât know this guy but I hope against hope that heâs rightâ to Nostradamus.
Besides, itâs hardly an efficient strategy for the anti-abortion movement: To build a âwallâ limiting travel, abortion opponents need to pass ordinance after ordinanceâand hope against hope that someone will enforce them.
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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 HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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