As it is I see Destitution and Despair ahead of me, and have begun an epitaph in the Micawber style for my future grave in the precincts of my native County's jail.
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Micawber
/mɪˈkɒbər/
Synonyms for "micawber" (14 found)
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hopeful figureliterary figureliterary typemicawber doctrine
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optimism doctrineoptimistic debtoroptimistic doctrinestock characterwait and see philosophywait and see principlewindfall belief
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7 entriesDavid Copperfield characterDickens charactercultural conceptfictional debtorliterary theorywait and see outlookwindfall expectation
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6 entriesDickensian MicawberMicawber principleMr Micawberoptimistic doctrinewait and see outlookwindfall belief
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... a state of feeling which I may perhaps best describe as the Micawber condition. If only gold would turn up! Gold might turn up any day! But as gold did not turn up, — then would not Providence be so good as to allow something else to turn up!
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Micawbers far from home, they waited for something to turn up.
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Austria was the Micawber of Europe. After all something might turn up.
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