also-ran

MoriokaBoy Mer, 12 fév 2025, 20:13

Sens de « also-ran »

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Someone or something that has lost, or was never really in contention to begin with. An unsuccessful person.

"I thought Barry had a chance with Amanda, but she rejected him... just like she's done with all the other also-rans."

"Millicent Fitzgerald? You see her name on the ballot every election day, but she's never been elected to anything. She's a perennial also-ran."

"Teams like theirs just have to get used to being also-rans; they just don't have the resources or expertise to move up in the league."

MoriokaBoyon Mer, 12 fév 2025, 20:13

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tiredandlonelymuseon Mar, 04 mar 2025, 22:28

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Then sank in stoned oblivion 'Cause once your queen had come You'd treat her like an also-ran You didn't measure up

I can stay behind him if I can I want to be a little more than an "also-ran" Through every curb he's got me beat

but i miscalculated And it’s hard to digest And i also ran out of Brioschi 1 And i have too much fantasy for reality 1. Brioschi is a brand of digestive pills

both they were dying The mariachis and their songs also ran away And that’s how two lives ended

When money is tight and hard to get And your horse has also ran And all you have is a heap of debt

Better woman,bird in hand Better days and nights that can Exonerate the also-ran From blameless guilt that,nameless,spans

Never cooled from the heat of your hand There's a line in a front-page story Thirteen horses that also-ran

while madmen in top hats and tails impale themselves on six-inch nails and some Arabian also-ran impersonates a watering can

I've made a lot of mistakes I also ran with the flow of time Looking back, it all seems the same

A failure of the Modern Man, To the centre of all life's desires, As a whole not an also ran. Love in a hollow field,

He's an underwhelming kind of sleuth He thinks James Bond is some kind of suit He's farther back than also ran But he's the last of the secret agents

Your towers are already falling Do you want to judge over everything? Your nation also ran away!

Bust like an internet millionaire, boom like a Lebanese belly-dancer, Bang like a new year's firecracker? Gone, gone, gone! I wouldn't get Bent like a rattan rockin' chair, blanked like a last place also ran, Burned like an Arkansas griddlecake? Gone, gone, gone!

Now that I'm at the end of my line I stand at the edge of myself and look down Guess I know that the best is behind me and the future is hard and real The moon is rough and the days are tough and the nights are my skin Here I am standing up for the long one, the lifetime thinning

It's just going to get bigger Not yet an also-ran The note left in your hand

Or at least that′s what they say. Myself I made of nothing. I'm just an also ran, My brother was a poet,

Young Norris used his hands and his feet And he kicked and he punched with his hands and his feet He also ran and jumped in the air But he was younger, so he didn't even care

I won’t forget you. I won’t forget any part of you I also ran with you that summer Starting tomorrow, on the days

[HUNKS] Not an also-ran

'Cause when the shit hits the fan You know I've always been an also ran Please, please understand