not have a prayer

短语

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To have no chance or possibility, usually in the face of peril or adversity.

    习语 非正式

    When the lights went dark in their flooded compartment, the submariners knew that they did not have a prayer.

词源

Implies that not even divine intervention could save the person.

来源：wiktionary