hope against hope
tohopeverystronglythat something willhappen,althoughyouknowit is notlikely:
抱着万一的希望，存一线希望They're justhopingagainsthopethat she's stillalive.他们对她还活着仍抱一线希望。
Hoping and hopefulness
- appealingly
- boosterish
- boosterism
- cautious
- cautiously
- glass
- hopeful
- hopefully
- hopefulness
- ill
- it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom
- la-la land
- over-expectation
- pinyourhopes onsomething/someoneidiom
- pipe dream
- please Godidiom
- Pollyanna
- positive
- trust
- wing
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hope against hope
When you have a family and are desperate for accommodation youhopeagainsthopethat it will be all right.
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It is no consolation to us, although wehopeagainsthopethat someone will come along for the factory when it is built.
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In other respects we must do our best for those who are away and who, wehopeagainsthope, will return.
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Those loved ones are not at rest; peoplehopeagainsthopefor their return, setting places for them at family celebrations such as weddings.
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Ihopeagainsthopethat wiser counsels will still prevail.
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Probably they hope—it may be evenhopeagainsthope—that somehow or other matters will come right.
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We should have set a cut-off point, but we failed to do so and now we have to continue andhopeagainsthopefor success.
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Ihopeagainsthopethat there will be no war, but the world must grapple with evil and not avert its gaze or pass by on the other side.
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When used as a noun, avos means hit or miss,hopeagainsthope, or something done under risk and in the hope for good result in the end.
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