- lost cause
- lost cause ► NOUN ▪ a person or thing that can no longer hope to succeed or be changed for the better.
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lost cause
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lost cause — {n. phr.} A movement that has failed and has no chance to be revived. * /Communism in Eastern Europe has become a lost cause./ … Dictionary of American idioms
lost cause — {n. phr.} A movement that has failed and has no chance to be revived. * /Communism in Eastern Europe has become a lost cause./ … Dictionary of American idioms
lost cause — noun A cause, attempt, or effort that is hopeless or futile. He has already made up his mind, and its a lost cause to try to change it … Wiktionary
Lost Cause (disambiguation) — Lost Cause refers to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.Lost Cause may also refer to: * Lost Cause (album), by Jandek * Lost Cause (song), by Beck … Wikipedia
Lost Cause of the Confederacy — The Lost Cause is the name commonly given to a literary and intellectual movement that sought to reconcile the traditional white society of the Southern United States to the defeat of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War of 1861… … Wikipedia
Lost Cause (album) — Infobox Album Name = Lost Cause Type = Album Artist = Jandek Released = 1992 Recorded = Unknown Genre = Blues/Garage Rock/Pop Music/Outsider Music Length = 43:13 Label = Corwood Industries Producer = Corwood Industries Last album = One Foot in… … Wikipedia
Lost Cause (song) — Infobox Single Name = Lost Cause Artist = Beck from Album = Sea Change B side = Released = Format = Promo Single Recorded = Genre = Folk Length = Label = Geffen Records Writer = Beck Hansen Producer = Nigel Godrich Certification = Chart position … Wikipedia
Lost Cause Motors — Chevrolet Corvair Limousine (1960–1964) Lost Cause Motors war ein US amerikanischer Automobilhersteller, der nur 1963 in Louisville (Kentucky) ansässig war. Sein Gründer, Charles P. Farmsley, war vorher Bürgermeister von Louisville gewesen und… … Deutsch Wikipedia
lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable. [1860 65] * * * … Universalium
lost — adjective Etymology: past participle of lose Date: 15th century 1. not made use of, won, or claimed 2. a. no longer possessed b. no longer known 3. ruined or destroyed physically or morally ; desperate 4. a. taken away or beyond reach or… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Cause — • Cause, as the correlative of effect, is understood as being that which in any way gives existence to, or contributes towards the existence of, any thing; which produces a result; to which the origin of any thing is to be ascribed Catholic… … Catholic encyclopedia
