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wet blanket

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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.
See also: wet


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Somehow, a canopy of wet blanket seems to descend upon the company, and Lady Tippins was never known to turn so very greedy or so very cross.
Its head was covered by the wet blanket and it was NOT SNORING ANY LONGER.
It was what Jotham called a sour morning for work, and the horses, shivering and stamping under their wet blankets, seemed to like it as little as the men.
 
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