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Definition of Great white hope
1. Noun. Someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field. "This company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great White Hope
Literary usage of Great white hope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Light's Labour's Lost: Policies for Energy-Efficient Lighting by Paul Waide, Satoshi Tanishima, International Energy Agency (2006)
"THE "great white hope" Energy savings, technology targets and investment The
existing LED and WLED markets and their associated niche energy savings are ..."
2. An African American Miscellany: Selections from a Quarter Century of by Library Company Of Philadelphia (1996)
"As appalled by a bold black champion as were later Americans, Britons cheered on
local champion Thomas Crib, their "great white hope," who beat Molineaux in ..."
3. Women-Owned and Home-Based Businesses: Hearing Before the Committee on Small edited by Christopher S. Bond (1999)
"When I first started the company out of the back of a pickup truck, shoveling
asphalt into potholes, I went to the SBA because that was the great white hope ..."
4. C3I: Issues of Command and Control edited by Thomas P. Coakley (1991)
"The real problem is that the great white hope of the early 1970s, congressional
reform, has turned out to be a disaster. There's no strong leadership in ..."
5. Christian Work in Latin America (1917)
"... cross! the CROSS! the blood-red cross of Calvary on the blue field of Christian
love, for the great white hope of bringing the lost world back to God. ..."
6. Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill (1898)
"... by what yearning fantasies—fit to make the angels weep—his unhappy followers,
obstinate not to lose the great white hope that had come to illumine the ..."
7. Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill (1898)
"... by what yearning fantasies—fit to make the angels weep—his unhappy followers,
obstinate not to lose the great white hope that had come to illumine the ..."
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