DISILLUSION, DISILLUSIONED
ADJECTIVES
► BEAT disillusioned; world-weary → 1947 Amer. sl.
VERBS
► BUST ONE’S EAR-STRING to become disillusioned and deaf to another’s speech → 1917 Amer. dial.
► TAKE THE GILT OFF THE GINGERBREAD to disillusion, to remove one’s fantasies, to downgrade → M19 sl.
Lexicophilia 