false expectation

noun

Roget 509: disappointment; 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 etc. 481; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool.    ... show more

Roget 508: inexpectation^†, non-expectation; false expectation etc. (disappointment) 509; miscalculation etc. 481.    surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock, start; bolt out of the blue; wonder etc. 870; eye opener.    unpleasant surprise, pleasant surprise.    ... show more

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