no-hoper
/nəʊˈhəʊpə
/noun informal
A person who is not expected to be successful: they wasted their nominations on a no-hoper...
- Based on a true story, the film tells how a racehorse dismissed as a no-hoper, ridden by a hot-tempered loser, and owned by a grieving businessman, won the hearts of a nation.
- When I was young, my mum used to tell me there were two types of people in our street - the no-hopers and the hard workers.
- It would be difficult if I only had poor horses and I was only struggling with no-hopers.
Rhymes
- knight
- knightage
- knight bachelor
- Knight, Bobby
- knight commander
- knight errant
- knight-errantry
- knighthood
- knight in shining armour (or knight on a white charger)
- Knight, John S.
- knightlike
- knightliness
- knightly
- knight marshal
- knight of the road
- knight of the shire
- Knightsbridge
- knight service
- Knights Hospitaller
- Knights Templar
- kniphofia
- knish
- knit
- knitbone
- knitter