lasthurrah

lasthurrah
last hurrah n.
A final appearance or effort, especially at the end of a career:

a reelection campaign that was expected to be her last hurrah.

  [After The Last Hurrah, a novel by Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968), American writer.]

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