Most will have their dreamsdashed in the time it takes to walk the length of the room.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Seesecret dream
Definition of 'dash'
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verb
If an event or person dashes someone's hopes or expectations, it destroys them by making it impossible that the thing that is hoped for or expected will ever happen.