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famous last words
Idioms and Phrases
A phrase used to express disbelief, rejection, or self-deprecation. For example, They said we'd get an extra bonus at Christmas鈥攆amous last words! or This book is bound to make the best-seller list鈥攆amous last words! This expression alludes to grandiose statements about human affairs that prove to be untrue, such as 鈥淭his is the war to end all wars,鈥 or 鈥淲e must make the world safe for democracy.鈥 [Late 1930s]Example Sentences
Since this scene plays more than halfway through the second season in an episode called 鈥淟ast Drink,鈥 we recognize this as the bleakest version of 鈥渇amous last words.鈥
Then he added: "Famous last words."
Thirty-odd millennia into the future, those are still famous last words.
But he went on: 鈥淔amous last words of Ned Rorem, crushed by a truck, gnawed by the pox, stung by wasps, in dire pain: 鈥楬ow do I look?鈥欌
Famous last words, but the immediate storm looks to have passed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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