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}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "He has already made up his mind, and it's a lost cause to try to change it."
},
{
"ref": "2015 April 18, Paul Wilson, The Guardian",
"text": "Artfully pulling the ball back to leave McCleary chasing a lost cause, Sánchez calmly made space for a shot and applied a finish that beat the despairing dives of both Federici and Michael Hector, the latter vainly attempting to recover position when it was too late.",
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"glosses": [
"A person or thing that is hopeless or futile."
],
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"links": [
[
"hopeless",
"hopeless"
],
[
"futile",
"futile"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) A person or thing that is hopeless or futile."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "forlorn hope"
},
{
"word": "no-hoper"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sinking ship"
}
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "verloren zaak"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kansloze zaak"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"word": "toivoton tapaus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "peine perdue"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cause perdue"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"word": "veszett ügy"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cúis caillte"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"word": "causa persa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "przegrana sprawa"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cauză pierdută"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "beznadjóga",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "безнадёга"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "beznadjóžnostʹ",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "безнадёжность"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cùis chaillte"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "causa perdida"
}
]
}
],
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"tags": [
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{
"text": "He has already made up his mind, and it's a lost cause to try to change it."
},
{
"ref": "2015 April 18, Paul Wilson, The Guardian",
"text": "Artfully pulling the ball back to leave McCleary chasing a lost cause, Sánchez calmly made space for a shot and applied a finish that beat the despairing dives of both Federici and Michael Hector, the latter vainly attempting to recover position when it was too late.",
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],
"glosses": [
"A person or thing that is hopeless or futile."
],
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],
[
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"futile"
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],
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"(idiomatic) A person or thing that is hopeless or futile."
],
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]
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"tags": [
"Australia"
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sinking ship"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "verloren zaak"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kansloze zaak"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"word": "toivoton tapaus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "peine perdue"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cause perdue"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"word": "veszett ügy"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cúis caillte"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"word": "causa persa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "przegrana sprawa"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cauză pierdută"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "beznadjóga",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "безнадёга"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "beznadjóžnostʹ",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "безнадёжность"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cùis chaillte"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "person or thing that is hopeless or futile",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "causa perdida"
}
],
"word": "lost cause"
}
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