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Idiom: Great white hope

Idiom Definitions for 'Great white hope'

Someone who is expected to be a great success is a great white hope.

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Noun 1. great white hope - someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field; "this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy" white hope

hope - someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; "he was their best hope for a victory"

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The Great White Hope Caucasian boxer who could win the heavyweight title In the 1970s, George Chuvallo was The Great White Hope.

http://www.english-idioms.net/cgi-bin/idiom.cgi?idiom=the%20goat —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.103.148.174 (talk) 06:57, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New meaning of the term "white"

White is more of a cultural identification rather than a genetic marker. For example, the Italian Arturo Gatti lost by 5th round TKO to Mexican Oscar Delahoya in 2001. Arturo Gatti was being hailed as the "white" person by the media and American boxing viewers and Oscar Delahoya as the non-white person. It was clearly evident that Arturo Gatti was a shade darker than Oscar Delahoya. Also, Delahoya's ethnic features were visibly more caucasian than Gatti's. But Gatti's Italian heritage links him to the "white" ethnic label within the United States. In contrast, Delahoya's, Mexican heritage is viewed as non-white regardless of DNA.

Boxers such as Paul Malignaggi of Italian heritage who does not possess white pigmintation is regarded as white as well by the American media.

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It definitely goes beyond color. When the moderate, humble ex-champion Floyd Patterson fought the flamboyant and outspoken champion Muhammad Ali, some sportswriters facietiously described Patterson as a Great White Hope despite his African-American heritage. As there was a dearth of Caucasian contenders at the time, social conservatives did tend to support Patterson. WHPratt (talk) 18:29, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]