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Hail Mary
noun- a last-minute, low-probability manoeuvre US
- But what the hell, why not try? I flung a Hail Mary to the shortest end I’d ever seen, the producer they had assigned to me/my project, a neurotic little bastard named Teddy. — Odie Hawkins, Lost Angeles, p. 61, 1994
- McVeigh’s lawyers, she said, were “in a Hail Mary situation, not by their own doing but by the government’s control of the timetable.” — Contra Costa Times, p. A24, 8 June 2001
- in poker, a poor hand that a player holds into high betting in the hope that other players are bluffing and have even worse hands US
- — John Vorhaus, The Big Book of Poker Slang, p. 21, 1996
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