单词 | dash someone's hopes |
释义 | dash someone's hopesDestroy 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] Words nearby dash someone's hopesdashing, Dashing White Sergeant, dash light, dash off, dashpot, dash someone's hopes, Dasht-e-Kavir, Dasht-e-Lut, Dasht-i-Kavir, Dasht-i-Lut, dashy 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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