The triumph of hope over experience British American phrase
Said to express the hope that something will become better in the future despite bad or failed experience in the past
The remarriage is considered as the triumph of hope over experience.
In spite of disagreement between the two countries in the past, the economic cooperation and integration is the triumph of hope over experience.
Used to refer to the births, marriages, and deaths sections of newspaper
To abandon someone you was going to marry at the wedding ceremony just before it is supposed to happen
A woman should marry a old man who will treat her well than a young man.
If you aspire to marry a woman, you should try make a positive impression on her mother.
To find a partner for someone.
Samuel Johnson reportedly said this remark in Samuel Johnson's Life of James Boswell, 1791. The occasion was the hearing by Johnson of a man who had remarried shortly after the death of a wife he was unhappily married to.
A humorous way of saying that what one has said is just what they acknowledge and may not be entirely accurate
Mike: Have you returned from your vacation on the beach? Your skin seems to get tanned.
Jenny: My skin is always dark. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!