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
Gina	JEE-nah (Italian), JEE-nə (English)	Italian, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Bullock	['bulək]
HalİM	-	Turkish
Hovsep	-	Armenian
UxÍO	oo-SHEE-aw	Galician
Regan	REE-gən	English