dash someone's hopes
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]
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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