wet blanket

The name seemed to fall like a wet blanket on the high spirits of the crowd.

However, I did not allow his presence to act as a wet blanket.

She wouldn't spoil his happiness with the wet blanket of her own misery.

I run that wet blanket around the stacks as fast as I could several times.

I remember feeling as though a wet blanket had been thrown over me.

The earth, soaked with oceans of rain, is steaming like a wet blanket.

At least, she did not serve as a wet blanket upon Jennie Stone.

The fact of his penury had been like a wet blanket upon him all day.

A wetter "wet blanket" it has never been my fortune to encounter.

Damn it, you agreed that that sulky brute Jeyes ud be a wet blanket!