Your teacher has assigned several homework assignments whose due-dates are spaced out over the course of the semester. You don't bother to do any of them. The night before the final, you realize what a mistake that was, and you hurriedly do all of the homework assignments in succession. On entering the final exam, you plop the lot of them on the teacher's desk, unceremoniously and without explanation. This hail-Mary hand-in subsequently becomes an object of incredulity and amusement among your teacher's colleagues.
Can you believe that Dwayne D. pulled a hail-Mary hand-in on me at the final? He must be delusional.
1.Refrence to the 2000 U.S. Presidential Elections where after contested ballot results and recounts in Florida, the Supreme Court decided George W. Bush as President. Some contest that when the ballots were recounted Bush did not actually win the election, thus critics to the process coined this phrase.
2. The title to Radiohead's sixth album which could be in refrence to the above definition.