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Phrase(s): Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
Prov. If you come in, be prepared for the worst. (Describes a hopeless situation or one somehow similar to hell. Often used jocularly. This is the English translation of the words on the gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno.) • This is our cafeteria. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs