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dashing hopes

n. an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone [syn: disappointment]

Usage examples of "dashing hopes".

A brief reprieve of warmth, just long enough to unfold tentative blossoms on fruit trees, was reversed by late spring hailstorms that ravaged the delicate blooms, dashing hopes of the promised harvest.

The first was to eliminate a lot of bacta, dashing hopes on Coruscant and driving the price yet higher.