The triumph of hope over experience In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "The triumph of hope over experience", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Eudora Thao calendar 2021-02-02 03:02

Meaning of The triumph of hope over experience

The triumph of hope over experience British American phrase

Said to express the hope that something will become better in the future despite bad or failed experience in the past

The remarriage is considered as the triumph of hope over experience.

In spite of disagreement between the two countries in the past, the economic cooperation and integration is the triumph of hope over experience.

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hatches matches and dispatches

Used to refer to the births, marriages, and deaths sections of newspaper

leave someone at the altar

To abandon someone you was going to marry at the wedding ceremony just before it is supposed to happen

better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave

A woman should marry a old man who will treat her well than a young man.

He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

If you aspire to marry a woman, you should try make a positive impression on her mother.

marry off

To find a partner for someone.

Origin of The triumph of hope over experience

Samuel Johnson reportedly said this remark in Samuel Johnson's Life of James Boswell, 1791. The occasion was the hearing by Johnson of a man who had remarried shortly after the death of a wife he was unhappily married to.

 

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the straw that broke the donkey's back

Used to allude that the last force, problem or burden which is seemingly minor and small causes a person, system or organisation to collapse or fail

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Her husband's violent act last night was the straw that broke the donkey's back and she left him

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