throw cold water on
Example Sentences
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Iran, however, continued to throw cold water on the negotiations Monday when Esmail Baghaei, the foreign ministry spokesperson, dismissed the Trump administration’s terms as “unrealistic, unreasonable and excessive.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
"Most things we do to a virus makes it weaker or not work as well, or maybe you're trying to engineer it for therapeutics, and I'd hate to see somebody throw cold water on that."
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025
“Someone almost had to throw cold water on us,” Ms. Henner told The Toronto Star in 1993.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023
Budowich did not respond to questions about such efforts, but Trump seemed to throw cold water on the advice.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022
If any onward step is taken they are ready to throw cold water on it; they will suggest all kinds of difficulties.
From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Moody, Dwight Lyman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
