dust and ashes

dust and ashes used to convey a feeling of great disappointment or disillusion about something 令人失望的事物： the party would be dust and ashes if he couldn't come. 如果他来不了, 这个聚会会令人大失所望的。

• herborisings
• salmonberries
• commemoration
• in the same street with
• the army
• Barotses
• firn line
• chiropterophilous
• extrudability
• Structural Genes
• pajama party
• aerial triangulation
• seedeater
• bronze medals
• sinnet
• slide calipers
• see sth with half an eye
• acrylonitrile copolymer
• diastereoisomerism
• environmental control system
• blame / shoot the messenger
• Malebranche, Nicolas de
• spoofer
• Wilson, Sir James Harold
• extractiform
• panelling
• granny dress
• in the wind
• Graiae
• channel designator
• cycles
• paradise
• partial sums
• amdeas
• photodynamical
• platform conveyor
• markedly
• fend for oneself
• basal lamina
• Muskegon
• corbie gables
• Kovar
• traducing
• without lag
• keep on the right side of the law
• straw boss
• solver
• agba
• colossal
• dental flosses
• blightingly
• comparison
• normalizations
• on-dograph
• remoralize
• cosmic ray
• paisana
• radar display
• superiority
• asymptomatically
• legumin
• bed bolt
• rofla
• bake-off
• put the wind up
• hay-scented fern
• fling sth to the winds
• without a moment’s thought
• auditories
• master work
• dispraisingly
• never-failings
• fit together
• plump/plunk/plonk down
• Balfour Declaration
• namelessness
• facilities
• specially
• apparent force
• cryoprotectant
• cattle tick
• light as a feather
• no thoroughfare
• Soviet Central Asia
• plight one's troth (或faith,promise,honour,word)
• mooring tower
• hood dryer
• crab cactus
• a turn-up for the book(s)
• ad personam
• discases
• the Arctic
• dunnaging
• vagrantly
• inessive
• men of the day
• twiny
• semiliquids
• make one turn in one's grave
• dipsomania