get one's hopes up

verb

Definitions

  1. To become enthusiastic about something that is not yet guaranteed to happen.

    • I try to set low expectations and not to get my hopes up.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for get one's hopes up. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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