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hope against hope |
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hope against hope to hope very strongly that something will happen, although you know it is not very likely. We were just hoping against hope that she would be rescued. (usually in continuous tenses; usually + that) |
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Only a very few days more - appallingly few to the hearts which had set themselves bravely to hope against hope - three weeks, a month later, perhaps, the name of ships under the blight of the "Overdue" heading shall appear again in the column of "Shipping Intelligence," but under the final declaration of "Missing. The situation, the long patience, the hope against hope, dignified and beautified the nature of the Italian writers of that day, and evoked from them a quality which I was too little trained in their school to appreciate. There is no hope except the hope against hope that the crest is clear. |
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hope against hope