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| break one's heart(idiom, pain) | |
| broken hearted(idiom, hopelessness) | |
| bum out(verb, phrasal verb) | |
| castles in the air(idiom, thoughtfulness, musing, reflectiveness) | |
| crush one's hopes(idiom, hopelessness) | |
| dark side(noun, doubt, melancholy, gloom) | |
| dash one's hopes(idiom, hopelessness) | |
| dead duck(idiom, hopelessness) | |
| delirium tremens(depression, melancholy) | |
| desperate recklessness | |
| destroy one's hopes(idiom, hopelessness) | |
| dim view(noun, doubt, melancholy, gloom) | |
| drive to despair(idiom, hopelessness) | |
| eat heart out(idiom, idle, pout) | |
| enfant perdu(idiom, hopelessness) | |
| everlasting fire(agony, hell, limbo) | |
| exempt from distrust(idiom, hope) | |
| exempt from fear(idiom, hope) | |
| exempt from suspicion(idiom, hope) | |
| expectation of worst(noun, idiom, doubt, melancholy) |
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