abandon hope, all ye who enter here

A message warning one about a hopeless situation from which there is no return. The Italian version of this phrase appears in Dante's Divine Comedy as the inscription on the entrance to Hell. The phrase is most often used humorously. I'll never forget my first day as an intern and the sign above my cubicle that said, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."

See also: abandon, all, enter, here, who, ye

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

Prov. If you come in, be prepared for the worst. (Describes a hopeless situation or one somehow similar to hell. Often used jocularly. This is the English translation of the words on the gate of Hell in Dante's Inferno.) This is our cafeteria. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!

See also: abandon, all, enter, here, who, ye

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

See also:

all hope abandon, ye who enter here
ye
a losing battle
losing battle, (to fight) a
losing battle, a
a penny for them
hopeless
hopeless at
hopeless at (something)
be twiddling (one's) thumbs

References in periodicals archive

Instead, let's prepare Ireland's gravestone with the epitaph: Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here.

Damien Lane: Lenihan lunacy a lesson for us all

ABANDON hope, all ye who enter here. The future isn''t bright, not in the slightest, in John Hillcoat''s Oscar-tipped, post-apocalyptic thriller, adapted by Joe Penhall from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men.

The end of the road for humanity; the main feature

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释义	abandon hope, all ye who enter here abandon hope, all ye who enter here A message warning one about a hopeless situation from which there is no return. The Italian version of this phrase appears in Dante's Divine Comedy as the inscription on the entrance to Hell. The phrase is most often used humorously. I'll never forget my first day as an intern and the sign above my cubicle that said, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." See also: abandon, all, enter, here, who, ye Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Prov. If you come in, be prepared for the worst. (Describes a hopeless situation or one somehow similar to hell. Often used jocularly. This is the English translation of the words on the gate of Hell in Dante's Inferno.) This is our cafeteria. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here! See also: abandon, all, enter, here, who, ye McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: all hope abandon, ye who enter here ye a losing battle losing battle, (to fight) a losing battle, a a penny for them hopeless hopeless at hopeless at (something) be twiddling (one's) thumbs References in periodicals archive Instead, let's prepare Ireland's gravestone with the epitaph: Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here. Damien Lane: Lenihan lunacy a lesson for us all ABANDON hope, all ye who enter here. The future isn''t bright, not in the slightest, in John Hillcoat''s Oscar-tipped, post-apocalyptic thriller, adapted by Joe Penhall from the novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men. The end of the road for humanity; the main feature
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