letdown, turn out (HAPPEN)

The much-anticipated announcement turned out to be a big letdown.



Any Olympic host city experiences a blend of letdown and relief once the torch is extinguished, and Beijing is likely to be no different. Major problems will need attention. The relatively blue skies during the Games were achieved only by restrictions that removed two million vehicles from the streets of Beijing and forced the temporary shutdown of many factories around the region. The city’s air pollution, which ranks among the worst in the world, will return when the restrictions are lifted after the conclusion of the Paralympics in late September.

Definition

letdown Show phonetics
noun [S] INFORMAL
a disappointment:
After all I'd heard about the film, it turned out to be a bit of a letdown.

（気の）ゆるみ; 失望; 【航空】（着陸前の）下降.
⇒let
or let-down n.

1. A decrease, decline, or relaxation, as of effort or energy.
2. A disappointment: The cancellation of the game was a real letdown.
3. The descent made by an aircraft in order to land.
4. A physiological response in lactating females, activated usually in response to sucking or crying by an infant, in which milk previously secreted into the alveoli of the breasts is released into the ducts that lead to the nipple.

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turn out (HAPPEN) phrasal verb
1 to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one:
As events turned out, we were right to have decided to leave early.
How did the recipe turn out?

2 to be known or discovered finally and surprisingly:
[+ to infinitive] The truth turned out to be stranger than we had expected.
[+ that] It turns out that she had known him when they were children.