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
I don't like to throw cold water on any proposition, but if you want my opinion, I must say I see no necessity for making a public thing out of it in that way.
From Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show by Anstey, F.
