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A list of phrases related to the word "hopeless"...
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A forlorn hope
Abandon hope all ye who enter here ( warning from Dante's Divine Comedy )
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Ants in his
pants
Ants
pants
As
useless
as a chocolate fireguard
As
useless
as a chocolate teapot
As
useless
as tits on a boar
Beat the
pants
off
Beyond hope
Bleak
House ( Charles Dickens book )
Bore the
pants
off someone
Broken dreams ( )
Buckley's chance
By the seat of your
pants
Cat in Hell's chance
Caught with your
pants
down
Chance would be a fine thing
Chinaman's chance
Dead loss
Dead meat
Desperate
Dan ( a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy )
Desperate
Housewives ( 2004 comedy drama television series )
Desperate
measures
Don't give up the day job
Drop your
pants
Dust your
pants
Fancy
pants
Flogging a dead horse
Fly by the seat of your
pants
Get into someone's
pants
Given up for lost
Good morning, Mr. Phelps ( A catchphrase from Mission
Impossible
)
Impossible
is nothing ( Adidas advertising slogan )
In The
Bleak
Midwinter ( Christmas Carol title )
It's just not my day
Joey
Pants
( Nickname of actor Joe Pantoliano )
Just one of those days
Just shoot me
Keep your
pants
on
Liar liar:
pants
on fire
Like looking for a needle in a haystack
Lost cause
Miserable specimen
Mission
Impossible
( Tom Cruise movie and television series title )
Not a chinaman's chance
Not a hope
Not fit for purpose
Not
impossible
Not the ghost of a chance
Pile of
pants
Piss poor
Resistance is
useless
Shoot me now
Smarty
pants
Snowball in hell's chance
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em ( BBC comedy television series )
Sunday driver
The difficult we do immediately; the
impossible
takes a little longer
The world's worst
This tape will self-destruct in five seconds ( A catchphrase from Mission
Impossible
)
Those who do not learn from history are
doomed
to repeat it
Training
pants
Up the
duff
Wash out
Waste of space
Waste of time
Wasting your time
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Your mission, if you choose to accept it ... ( A catchphrase from Mission
Impossible
)