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Hoffnungen machen
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Hoffnungen_machen
de informal negative polarity reflexive to get one's hopes up, to hold one's breath
de Mach dir keine Hoffnungen. Der Plan wird eh nichts. Don't get your hopes up. That plan isn't gonna work anyway.