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wet blanket

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I lay out my worries here not as a wet blanket, but because I am a worrier.

From Vox

Have you noticed there are some people who would love to put a big wet blanket on all of this?

If anything, the idea of Kristen Stewart, expert wet blanket, only got even damper.

She was an iceberg,—a beautiful kill-joy,—a wet blanket of charming texture.

But that was perhaps unnecessary; and we shall not throw a “wet blanket” upon the matter by further alluding to it.

A wet blanket of so terrible a size was in itself pernicious to the Cabinet, and heartrending to the poor Duke.

So I gave him one end of a wet blanket which I was carrying, and I grabbed hold of the other end.

How much potential goodness and greatness would become actual but for the wet blanket of sullen silence!

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wet blanket, such as: cold water, damper, downer, drag, grinch, and grouch.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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