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Hail Mary

noun as in last-ditch effort

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Presumably Jayden Daniels is getting healthier, and the Commanders are flying high after that Hail Mary victory.

The Hail Mary is to throw it to the House of Representatives, which could produce a Republican president.

From Salon

“This is a Hail Mary by Trump’s team that will likely fail,” Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, said of the latest filing on social media.

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“When you visit a gravesite of a family member — it’s going to sound strange to you — but you say three Hail Marys. And that’s what I was doing at the site.”

It was a last-minute Hail Mary that worked in his favor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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