Idiom
dash someone's hopes
Meaning
To undercut or undermine someone's dreams or aspirations.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I do not want to dash your hopes, but the tickets are sold out.”
“The coach did not want to dash his hopes, but he had to tell the player he did not make the team.”
“The sudden cancellation of the project served to dash the hopes of the entire research team, who had spent years working toward that specific goal.”
Examples
simple
“I do not want to dash your hopes, but the tickets are sold out.”
contextual
“The coach did not want to dash his hopes, but he had to tell the player he did not make the team.”
complex
“The sudden cancellation of the project served to dash the hopes of the entire research team, who had spent years working toward that specific goal.”
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