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Definition of Dashing hopes
1. Noun. An act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dashing Hopes
Literary usage of Dashing hopes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bibliographer (1883)
"If it escape these, it enters upon the period of youth, with buoyant spirits and
dashing hopes. It makes friendships which too often lead it into disaster. ..."
2. Famous Ladies of the English Court by Jerusha D. Richardson (1899)
"dashing hopes that had begun to shape themselves, and provoking from her courteous
pen a string of recriminations. ..."
3. Cotton in West Africa: The Economic and Social Stakes by Oecd, Karim Hussein, Christophe Perret, Leonidas Hitimana (2006)
"Three years later we have just seen the suspension of the Doha Round of trade
negotiations, dashing hopes that the trade dimensions of the cotton issue will ..."
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