throw cold water on
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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
In your last letter you throw cold water on my proposed journey to Hamburg; and perhaps you are right in thinking the coup I planned not so great and critical as I have been imagining.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
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