throw cold water on
Example Sentences
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“These developments throw cold water on the idea of a swift de-escalation in the Persian Gulf,” analysts at ING said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
"It appears to me, mates," replied the carpenter, "that our friend Billy is going to throw cold water on all our plans."
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard
