Hopey McChange
- noun
- Offensive
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- When he suggested another big reform, his friends jokingly called him Hopey McChange.
Examples
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She was known as Hopey McChange around the office for always believing things could improve.
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Don't be a Hopey McChange!
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After the meeting, everyone started calling Tom Hopey McChange because of his enthusiastic new ideas.
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Hopey McChange is optimistic.
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After the meeting, everyone started calling Tom Hopey McChange because of his enthusiastic new ideas.
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She was known as Hopey McChange around the office for always believing things could improve.
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When he suggested another big reform, his friends jokingly called him Hopey McChange.
Synonyms
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8.2
A person who always expects the best, even when things are bad
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A person who expects good things to happen in hard times
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A person who always expects good things to happen, even in bad situations
A person who keeps expecting good things even when it seems unlikely
A person who is very optimistic in a way that ignores real problems
Antonyms
How Optimistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
hopey + McChange
The phrase is clearly built from recognizable pieces: 'hopey' signals persistent optimism and 'McChange' transparently evokes 'change' with a playful 'Mc-' surname pattern, so a learner can infer someone associated with optimism about change. However, 'McChange' is a nonce, culturally playful formation and the ironic/pejorative nickname sense (the mocking tone of such coinages) requires cultural knowledge beyond simple word meanings, so the meaning is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Hopey McChange comes from a playful nickname that joins Hopey (someone full of hope) and McChange as a joking last name. One popular idea is that the 'Mc' makes it sound like a character name used to tease someone, so it is used to call a person 'very optimistic' or a bit 'naive' about big change.