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望みの綱
【 のぞみのつな 】
1. [exp,n]
▶ one's last hope
▶ one's only hope
▶ the last hope



History:
2. A 2013-02-27 00:36:08  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
ルミナス, Eijiro
  Diff: 
@@ -11,0 +11,1 @@
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
@@ -14,0 +15,1 @@
+<gloss>the last hope</gloss>
1. A* 2013-02-26 00:15:18  phil locke <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
http://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/"last+hope"
  Comments: 
i also found this as 最後の望みの綱, but in the book where i saw it and at the referenced link, 望みの綱 carries the sense of "last" hope without 最後.  perhaps 綱 gives it something like the english sense of "hanging by a thread."

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