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Meanings of wet blanket in anglès
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Examples for "killjoy"
Examples for "killjoy"
1
It's hard for me, too; I don't want to be the killjoy.
2
A year or two at most. Saying so, Grigori felt like a killjoy.
3
He did not intend any longer to play the part of a killjoy.
4
Anxious, haggard, greedy, I stood among them like a veritable killjoy.
5
I must not make myself a killjoy in the family.
1
And only a beastly spoilsport would point out that rats can swim.
2
Two factors have emerged to play spoilsport - valuations and inflation.
3
Still, not to be a spoilsport, he too broke up with his wife.
4
He shot me a look as if to say 'spoilsport'.
5
On a day when the weather again tried to play spoilsport, nobody could ruin Lowry's party.
1
I took a party pooper pill on the way back to the ship.
2
But am overruled by Larry, halfheartedly trying not to be a party pooper.
3
Maia, the party pooper, was nursing a mug of herbal tea.
4
Bob just looked at me as if I was the world's biggest party pooper.
5
I hate to be a party pooper, y'all, but I need to get home.
Usage of wet blanket in anglès
1
Half-decayed wood is good; spongy, moist, unpleasant stuff, a vegetable wet blanket.
2
His great experience and standing threw a wet blanket on my hopes.
3
This little pilgrimage threw quite a wet blanket upon his rising spirits.
4
I cried, this is indeed a wet blanket thrown upon my success.
5
He was then unimaginably awkward, incapable of unbending, a wet blanket socially.
6
Poor Indiana receives a very wet blanket on a cold winter's night.
7
And I thought one wet blanket in the house was enough.
8
He threw off the wet blanket and got up cramped and half frozen.
9
But by that time, probably, the wet blanket had effectually extinguished the glow.
10
Shorty and he had done some brand-burning through a wet blanket.
11
I am a wet blanket to you, and yet I cannot help myself.
12
I have been a wet blanket on this party long enough.
13
The earth, soaked with oceans of rain, is steaming like a wet blanket.
14
Really, Cecil, you are the champion wet blanket of your age.
15
However, I did not allow his presence to act as a wet blanket.
16
And I owe my wet blanket to you, so we're even.
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Wet blanket through the time
Wet blanket across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common