wet blanket

Example Sentences

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Inflation is throwing a wet blanket on everything we do, everything we buy, not just at the pump.

From Los Angeles Times

Smoke from several regional fires hung heavy over the area, clamped down like a wet blanket by a high-pressure zone.

From Los Angeles Times

“It feels like you are wearing a wet blanket just on your back every day and you can’t get it off. Everywhere you go, it’s on you.”

From Washington Post

“That’s going to have an impact economically. The circumstances put kind of a wet blanket on it.”

From Washington Times

Despite a raging world war, in 1944, my mother was sent to finishing school in Königsberg, until that August when she escaped Britain's fiery bombing of the city under a wet blanket.

From Salon