blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip;
nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter
disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain
expectation; miscalculation &c 481; fool's paradise; much cry and
little wool.
V. be disappointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast &c
(wonder) 870; find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's
mouth; find one a false prophet.
not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation.
[cause to be disappointed] disappoint; frustrate, discomfit,
crush, defeat (failure) 732; crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk
one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's
hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false,
play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound,
dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish) 870.
Adj. disappointed &c v.; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of
one's reckoning.
Phr. the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse; parturiunt montes
[Lat.]; nascitur ridiculus mus [Lat.] [Horace]; diis aliter visum
[Lat.], the bubble burst; one's countenance falling.