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Examples:have great hopes for one's offspring—all one's hopes and efforts come nothing—may all your hopes be fulfilled—fig. spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)—be full of frustrations and dashed hopes—have all one's hopes dashed—fall through (of plans, hopes)—pot-holed and bumpy road (idiom); fig. full of disappointment and dashed hopes—vanishing (illusions, hopes, aspirations etc)—new hopes after a disastrous period [idiom.]—trapped beyond hope of rescue—Hot money, money flowing from one currency another in the hope of quick profit—with no hope of reprieve—wish for higher status (idiom); to curry favor in the hope of promotion—"youth freezing", Chinese girls beginning anti-ageing treatments as young as two years old in the hope they will never look old—place (hope, importance etc) on—part (usually with little hope of meeting again)—every hope turns dust (idiom); completely disheartened—While the green hills last, there'll be wood burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.—keep going while some hope is left—lit. hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life—out of ammunition and no hope of reinforcements (idiom); in desperate straits—lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. disappear with no hope of returning—be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)—hitching a ride the sky on the dragon and phoenix (idiom); fig. currying favor with the rich and powerful in the hope of advancement—lit. see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up [idiom.]— |