Dictionary of American idioms

ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.: translation

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
Prov.If you come in, be prepared for the worst. (Describes a hopeless situation or one somehow similar to hell. Often used jocularly. This is the English translation of the words on the gate of Hell in Dante's

Inferno

.) •

This is our cafeteria. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!