With wordplay or misapprehension of the etymology: A faint hope, a ‘hope against hope’; an enterprise which has little chance of success.
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释义 | the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [noun] > unlikely enterprise (2) forlorn hopea1643 With wordplay or misapprehension of the etymology: A faint hope, a ‘hope against hope’; an enterprise which has little chance of success. no-ball1922 In extended use. |
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