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dash someone's hopes



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Idioms and Phrases

Destroy someone's plans, disappoint or disillusion. For example, That fall dashed her hopes of a gold medal . This term uses dash in the sense of “destroy,” a usage surviving only in this idiom. [Second half of 1500s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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