English · Idiom Candidate

burst someone's bubble

Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

to disappoint or disillusion someone

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

làm thất vọng hoặc mất niềm tin của ai đó

Machine-translated — suggest a fix

Literally: to pop a bubble

Where it’s used: Used Widespread English

Examples

Hopefully we can go out and beat them, it'd be great to burst their bubble.

So hopefully he's going to burst West Ham's pretty bubbles?

British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.

Common questions

What does “burst someone's bubble” mean?

to disappoint or disillusion someone Literally: to pop a bubble

Is “burst someone's bubble” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.

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