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单词 hostage to fortune
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hostage to fortune

An undertaking or remark seen as unwise because it invites trouble or could prove difficult to live up to: making objectives explicit is to give a hostage to fortune...
  • This brave statement may yet prove to be a hostage to fortune.
  • They might pass something that proves an electoral liability or makes a minister a hostage to fortune.
  • There is no point in producing a blog if it is not honest and open but politicians are wary beasts because we are all hostages to fortune and we don't want to give our opponents ammunition.
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