Hope Phrases

Phrases

• A New Hope (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando movie)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams play)
• A drowning man will clutch at a straw
• A forlorn hope
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• Be careful what you wish for
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi quotation)
• Better luck next time
• Beyond hope
• Breach of trust
• Buckley's chance
• Build up your hopes
• Burning desire

• Castles in Spain
• Castles in the air
• Cat in Hell's chance
• Center of hope
• Chance of a lifetime
• Chance would be a fine thing
• Chance your arm
• Chinaman's chance
• Clutch at straws
• Cooks who know trust Crisco (Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan)
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Cross your fingers
• Crying Waiting Hoping (Buddy Holly song)
• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire (George Bernard Shaw quotation)
• Dark before the dawn

• Don't trust anyone over thirty
• Down to the last out (A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance)
• Dream on
• Drinking in the last chance saloon
• Even chance
• Expect the unexpected
• Fat chance
• Fighting chance
• Fingers crossed
• Gee, I wish I had a nickel (Life Savers Candy advertising slogan)
• Give Peace A Chance (John Lennon song)
• Given up for lost
• Glimmer of hope
• God rest his soul
• God willing and the creek don't rise

• Great white hope
• Half a chance
• Heart's desire
• Heaven help us
• High hopes
• Hitch your wagon to a star
• Hope against hope
• Hope for the best
• Hope springs eternal
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• I believe in angels, something good in everything I see (ABBA lyric)
• I feel like a Guinness - I wish you were (Guinness advertising slogan)
• I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener (Oscar Meyer advertising slogan)
• I wish they all could be Caledonia girls (Caledonia Airlines advertising slogan)
• If only

• In God we trust
• In with a chance
• In your dreams
• Jump at the chance
• Keep hope alive
• Keep your fingers crossed
• Keep your spirits up
• Land of hope and glory
• Last chance
• Light at the end of the tunnel
• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever (Mahatma Ghandhi quotation)
• Love conquers all
• Main chance
• Not a chinaman's chance
• Not a hope

• Not the ghost of a chance
• On the off chance
• On the wings of a prayer
• One fine day
• Pie in the sky
• Pin your hopes on
• Please let it be a dream
• Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
• Set your cap at
• Shot in the dark
• Snowball in hell's chance
• Take a chance on me (ABBA lyric)
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The Great White Hope (Nickname of James J.Jeffries)
• The Peerless Leader (Nickname of Frank Chance)

• The best laid plans
• The best laid schemes of mice and men
• The best of British
• The best of British luck
• The next president of the United States
• The wish is father to the thought
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life
• Touch wood
• Triumph of hope over experience
• Trust and obey
• Trust me, I'm a doctor
• When you wish upon a star
• Where there's life, there's hope
• Wish for the moon
• Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye

• Wish you were here
• Wishful thinking
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You can trust your car to the man who wears the star (Texaco Fuel advertising slogan)
• You don't get a second chance at a first impression
• You only get one chance to make a first impression
• You'll wish you had never been born
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)

Related

• A New Hope (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• A forlorn hope
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Beyond hope
• Center of hope
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Glimmer of hope
• Great white hope
• Hope against hope
• Hope for the best
• Hope springs eternal
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• Keep hope alive
• Land of hope and glory
• Not a hope
• The Great White Hope (Nickname of James J.Jeffries)
• Triumph of hope over experience
• Where there's life, there's hope