Let down
Let down verb - To fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- For instance, if a character has just been let down, and sad violin music pipes up.
Source: Transition Track - With a hastily written story and little time for audiences to be let down from the initial excitement of Caves, "The Twin Dilemma" hobbled onto the screen... and the reaction from audiences was not pretty, beginning the long, sad decline of the show over the remainder of the 1980s.
Source: Tough Act to Follow
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