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To be killed or lost Informal Refers to the sun setting at the west. The Grim Reaper [2] Personification of death Cultural: A skeleton with a scythe, often in a cloak. Also commonly truncated to just "The Reaper". Hand in one's dinner pail [2] To die Informal No longer required at workmen's canteen Happy hunting ground Dead Informal
Colin Campbell leading the 'forlorn hope' at the Siege of San Sebastián, 1813.Painting by William Barnes Wollen. A forlorn hope is a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the vanguard in a military operation, such as a suicidal assault through the breach of a defended position, or the first men to climb a scaling ladder against a defended fortification, or a rearguard, to be ...
Ik heb alle hoop verloren - I have lost all hope. Een hoop kerels - a bunch of guys / a lot of guys. Er is geen hoop - there is no hope. Het is hopeloos - it is hopeless.-----English may have taken the phrase and not known which meaning it was, simply assuming it meant "hope". Then perhaps it went back to Dutch with this new interpretation.
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I have lost the day: From the Roman Emperor Titus. Recorded in the biography of him by Suetonius in Lives of the Twelve Caesars. dies irae: Day of wrath: Reference to the Judgment Day in Christian eschatology. The title of a famous Medieval Latin hymn by Tommaso da Celano in the 13th century and used in the Requiem Mass. dies non juridicum
Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's own life, or the world at large. [1] As a verb, Merriam-Webster defines hope as "to expect with confidence" or "to cherish a desire with anticipation". [2] Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness ...
U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo called Sweden "a bunch of cowards" after they knocked the U.S. out of the Olympics on penalties on Friday.
[3] [31] Some turn to drugs in order to lessen the impact of the negative experiences whereas others hope to learn through the non-ordinary drug experiences to cope with the existential crisis. While this type of behavior can succeed in providing a short-term relief of the effects of the existential crisis, it has been argued that it is usually ...