Usually means: Anticipating significant success or improvement.
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  1. Great Expectations: Dictionary.com
  2. Great Expectations (Grey's Anatomy), Great Expectations (Modern Family), Great Expectations (Tasmin Archer album), Great Expectations (album), Great Expectations (disambiguation), Great Expectations, Great expectations: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. great expectations, Great Expectations: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Great Expectations: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Great Expectations)

noun:  the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel.
noun:  a 1946 British drama film directed by David Lean, based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills and Valerie Hobson.
noun:  an 1860 novel by Charles Dickens.
noun:  a 1998 American romantic drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, from a screenplay by Mitch Glazer and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, and Robert De Niro.
noun:  a British-American television serial based on Charles Dickens' 1861 novel of the same title.
noun:  a 1934 adaptation of the 1861 Charles Dickens novel of the same name.
noun:  a 1974 film made for television based on the Charles Dickens 1861 novel of the same name.
noun:  a 1999 television film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name.
noun:  a lostThe Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Great Expectations Retrieved January 15, 2017 1917 silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and Paul West, based on the 1861 novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
noun:  a 1981 BBC drama serial based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens.
noun:  "Great Expectations" is the eighth episode of the ABC sitcom Modern Family.
noun:  (a journey through the history of visionary architecture) a 2007 documentary about the history of visionary architecture by director Jesper Wachtmeister.
noun:  "Great Expectations" is the thirteenth episode in the third season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and the show's 49th episode overall.
noun:  a three-part BBC television drama adaptation by Sarah Phelps of the Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name, starring Ray Winstone as Magwitch, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham, Douglas Booth as Pip, Vanessa Kirby as Estella and David Suchet as Jaggers.
noun:  a 2012 British-American film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel of the same name.
noun:  the debut album by English singer-songwriter Tasmin Archer, released in late 1992 on EMI Records.
noun:  a 2018 Chinese television series starring written by Chen Sicheng, starring himself alongside Yuan Hong, Tong Liya and Amber Kuo.
noun:  a British television series which first aired on BBC 1 in 1967.
noun:  a musical with music by Cyril Ornadel and book and lyrics by Hal Shaper based on Charles Dickens' 1861 novel of the same name.
noun:  a historical drama television miniseries developed by Steven Knight, based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens.


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