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dash someone's hopes
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 | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Kiefer | | KEE-fər | English (Modern) |
| Shahrizad | | - | Arabic |
| Eldred | | EL-drəd | English |
| Yaroslava | | yah-rah-SLAH-vah (Russian) | Russian, Ukrainian, Medieval Slavic |
| Osee | | - | Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek |
| Iohannes | | - | Biblical Latin |