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
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