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Significats de wet blanket en anglès

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Someone who spoils the pleasure of others.

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        Ús de wet blanket en anglès
        1
        Half-decayed wood is good; spongy, moist, unpleasant stuff, a vegetable wet blanket.
        Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
        2
        His great experience and standing threw a wet blanket on my hopes.
        Edison: His Life and Inventions
        3
        This little pilgrimage threw quite a wet blanket upon his rising spirits.
        Sister Carrie: A Novel
        4
        I cried, this is indeed a wet blanket thrown upon my success.
        The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
        5
        He was then unimaginably awkward, incapable of unbending, a wet blanket socially.
        The Mirrors of Washington
        6
        Poor Indiana receives a very wet blanket on a cold winter's night.
        George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
        7
        And I thought one wet blanket in the house was enough.
        The Helmet of Navarre
        8
        He threw off the wet blanket and got up cramped and half frozen.
        Desert Gold
        9
        But by that time, probably, the wet blanket had effectually extinguished the glow.
        The Blazed Trail
        10
        Shorty and he had done some brand-burning through a wet blanket.
        Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
        11
        I am a wet blanket to you, and yet I cannot help myself.
        The Prime Minister
        12
        I have been a wet blanket on this party long enough.
        Ruth Fielding Down East; Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point
        13
        The earth, soaked with oceans of rain, is steaming like a wet blanket.
        Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
        14
        Really, Cecil, you are the champion wet blanket of your age.
        The Independence of Claire
        15
        However, I did not allow his presence to act as a wet blanket.
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
        16
        And I owe my wet blanket to you, so we're even.
        The Young Firemen of Lakeville; Or, Herbert Dare's Pluck
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