letting down
Breaking a promise
Letting down is failing to meet someone's expectations or hopes.
You let someone down when you disappoint them: I promised I'd be there, and I really let her down.
The phrase also has a literal sense of lowering something: letting down the drawbridge, letting down the hem of a skirt.
For nursing mothers, letting down refers to the release of milk.
- frustratePrevent from succeeding
- disenchantFree from false beliefs
- broken promiseCommitment not honored
- falling shortNot meeting expectations
- lowerReduce or move downward
betray · fail · lose face · spoil · disappointment · thwart · slacken · disillusion · neglect · abandon · untie · hair · unfasten · deflate · relax · underperform · drop · deceive
letting downcoming through
Announcement of one's passage
delivering · following through · fulfilling · making good · living up to
letting downuplifting
Emotionally encouraging
supporting · encouraging · bolstering · buoying · standing by
letting downraising
Lifting or nurturing
lifting · hoisting · pulling up · elevating · picking up
letting, lets, down, downs, downed, downing, downer, downward, downwards