英和和英

名詞

no-hoper (複数形 no-hopers)

1. Someone or something that has no hope of success.
   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 4:

     Francis Urquhart: Six days to the first ballot. Who are we up against?
     Tim Stamper: Mackenzie, Earle, Woolton, Samuels, and three no-hopers: Bairsted, Llewellyn-Jones-Rhys, and Bogg.

   • 2016, Jack Chapman, Prodigal Son

     "Brain-dead kids. Born losers. No-hopers the lot of 'em. I mean, as a taxpayer, what do they effin' teach 'em in school these days? I ask you!"

参考

• forlorn hope
• goner

アナグラム

• -orphone, phorone