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]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Makenna	mə-KEN-ə	English (Modern)
Minodora	-	Romanian
Chloris	-	Greek Mythology
Shena	SHEE-nə	English (Modern)
Carolina	kah-ro-LEE-nah (Italian, Spanish), ka-roo-LEE-nə (Portuguese), ker-ə-LIEN-ə (English), kar-ə-LIEN-ə (English)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Swedish
Miyu	mee-yoo	Japanese