wet+blanket
31wet blanket — noun informal a person who spoils other people s enjoyment with their disapproving or unenthusiastic manner …
32wet blanket — noun (C) informal someone who tries to spoil other people s fun …
33wet blanket — Noun. A miserable person unwilling to participate in an enjoyable event or moment. Derog …
34ˌwet ˈblanket — noun [C] informal someone who spoils other people s fun by criticizing what they are doing, or by refusing to take part in it …
35wet blanket — noun someone who spoils the pleasure of others • Syn: ↑spoilsport, ↑killjoy, ↑party pooper • Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism • Hypernyms: ↑unwelcome person, ↑persona non grata …
36throw a wet blanket over/upon one's spirits — (from Idioms in Speech) to distress somebody Clare s restlessness was nothing new. To come the elder sister! To be a wet blanket! Impossible! (J. Galsworthy) Don t be such a damned old wet blanket, Dick said. Think big, man, think big. (J.… …
37throw a wet blanket — See: WET BLANKET …
38throw a wet blanket — See: WET BLANKET …
39throw\ a\ wet\ blanket — See: wet blanket …
40(a) wet blanket — informal someone who does or says something that stops other people from enjoying themselves. I don t want to be a wet blanket, but you really must play your music more quietly or you ll disturb the people next door …
