forlorn hope /fər-lörnˈ hōp/

1. Orig, a body of soldiers selected for some service of especial danger
2. A desperate enterprise of last resort
3. A vain or faint hope (from association with hope, in the sense of expectation)

• hen roost
• hen roosts
• hen run
• land-jobbing
• landladies
• landlady
• land law
• land laws
• Land League
• landless
• landlessness
• land-line
• land-lines
• landlocked
• land-loper
• landloper
• land-lopers
• landlopers
• landlord
• landlordism
• landlordisms
• landlords
• land-louper
• land-loupers
• land-lubber