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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Hope for the best(chess)

Hi.
May I rephrase
"...,Black must advance his b7-pawn and hope for the best."
as
"...,Black must advance his b7-pawn and be hopeful."?

Would you please give other rephrasings?

Thanks in advance!
  

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soheil1 Would you please give other rephrasings? Your rephrasing is not precise enough. " Prajwal

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soheil1Would you please give other rephrasings?
Your rephrasing is not precise enough. "...,Black must advance his b7-**** and hope for a favourable outcome."

Prajwal
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I thought hopeful means hoping for a favorable outcome
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"Be hopeful" just sounds wrong. Sorry. The meaning is perfect, but it just sounds wrong. It lacks the tiny ironic twist, for one thing.

hope for the best
keep his fingers crossed
pray that everything turns out all right
rub his rabbit's foot
trust to luck
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What's the tiny ironic twist?
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soheil1What's the tiny ironic twist?
Do you play chess? To hope for the best when you push a **** is like saying "Here, kitty, kitty" to a hungry tiger.
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Could you please explain more?
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I really don't get thhe relation
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soheil1Could you please explain more?
Nobody says, "Be hopeful." You might find that embroidered on a kitchen towel or something, but it would ring archaic, and nobody would say that, normally. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because we "have hope", not "be hopeful". I think we normally are "hopeful of" something, too. "Hope for the best" is a well-worn formula,
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again I did not get it!

Thou meanth 'hope for the best' equals 'have hope'?
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Means be full of hope?
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