let down

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let someone down

to disappoint someone, usually by not doing something. I know it's silly, but I feel like everyone lets me down when I really need help.

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While the two were reclining in their chamber, Venus wishing to discover if the Cat in her change of shape had also altered her habits of life, let down a mouse in the middle of the room. Fables by Aesop View in context Twas the work of but a few moments more to open the gates, let down the bridge, and admit the rest of the band; and they lot inside the town so quietly that none knew of their coming. Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context And when she came to the meadow, she sat down upon a bank there, and let down her waving locks of hair, which were all of pure silver; and when Curdken saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up, and would have pulled some of the locks out, but she cried: Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context More results

References in classic literature

While the two were reclining in their chamber, Venus wishing to discover if the Cat in her change of shape had also altered her habits of life, let down a mouse in the middle of the room.

Fables by Aesop View in context

Twas the work of but a few moments more to open the gates, let down the bridge, and admit the rest of the band; and they lot inside the town so quietly that none knew of their coming.

Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context

And when she came to the meadow, she sat down upon a bank there, and let down her waving locks of hair, which were all of pure silver; and when Curdken saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up, and would have pulled some of the locks out, but she cried:

Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context

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