white hope
a person who is expected to accomplish much in a given field: the white hope of the American theater.
Sports. (formerly) a white man who had a good chance of winning the heavyweight boxing championship from a Black man.
Origin of white hope
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How to use white hope in a sentence
Because he is perceived as the next white hope of the NBA, even though the odds of that are mixed at best.
He had always been The Great white hope in a very small pond.
The "white hope" was grinning and confident, and so he returned to the center of the ring for the second round.
The Mucker | Edgar Rice BurroughsThe following morning the sporting sheets hailed "Sailor" Byrne as the greatest "white hope" of them all.
The Mucker | Edgar Rice BurroughsFirst among them came a bugler, the officers, then next a trooper, leading the white hope—the precious Red Rover.
The Preacher of Cedar Mountain | Ernest Thompson Seton
The reverend gentleman was the white hope of the anti-suffragists.
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI | VariousHe was polite and very gentle, but Sagorski, the white hope, knew what he was when aroused.
Paradise Garden | George Gibbs
British Dictionary definitions for white hope
informal a person who is expected to bring honour or glory to his group, team, etc
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