| 单词 | lost cause |
| 释义 | lost causeSEE SYNONYMS FOR lost cause ON THESAURUS.COM nouna cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable. Origin of lost causeFirst recorded in 1860–65 Words nearby lost causelossmaking, loss ratio, lossy, lost, lost and found, lost cause, Lost Colony, Los Teques, Lost Generation, lost in the shuffle, lost in thought Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for lost cause
British Dictionary definitions for lost causelost cause nouna cause with no chance of success Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with lost causelost cause A hopeless undertaking, as in Trying to get him to quit smoking is a lost cause. In the 1860s this expression was widely used to describe the Confederacy. [Mid-1800s] Also see losing battle. 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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