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Hope's last phone call, made at 3 a.m. with no battery left.
means The frantic, reckless state you reach when every reasonable option has already failed you.
from From Latin desperare, to be without hope — de (away from) plus sperare (to hope), literally hope subtracted.
Buried hopeThe Latin root literally means de-hoping.
Sales tacticIt reliably smells worse than any cologne.
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