Definition of wet blanket
: one that quenches or dampens enthusiasm or pleasure
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Examples of wet blanket in a Sentence
I'd love to go to the party, but with my cold, I'm afraid I'd just be a wet blanket.
Recent Examples of wet blanket from the Web
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The humidity was oppressive, the gray a wet blanket.
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The humidity was oppressive, the gray a wet blanket.
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Ariana Grande, Unfinished Business deluxe edition bonus track, 2016) On their second musical collaboration, Ariana and her ex-boyfriend, Nathan Sykes of The Wanted fame, deliver a wet blanket of a piano duet where every line is a different cliché.
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In the shade of the trees, the air felt like a wet blanket, and mosquitoes homed in on open flesh.
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With the help of a friend, Stauffer used the wet blanket to cover the animal and a broom to stop it from getting away.
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If this is throwing a (very cold and) wet blanket on a party then, well, sorry.
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The 2015 regulations threw a wet blanket on those efforts.
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Win McNamee/Getty Images The wet blankets: Here’s our heartening master list of the people and organizations that are holding Trump back, from King Abdullah of Jordan to former acting head of the DOJ Sally Yates.
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First Known Use of wet blanket
1844
wet blanket Synonyms
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Near Antonyms
carouser, celebrant, celebrator, merrymaker, rejoicer, reveler (or reveller), roisterer;
Related Words
fuddy-duddy, goody-goody, Goody Two-shoes, old maid, stick-in-the-mud;
defeatist, knocker, pessimist;
complainer, crab, cynic, grouch, grump, sorehead, sourpuss, whiner;
WET BLANKET Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of wet blanket for English Language Learners
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: a person who makes it difficult for other people to enjoy themselves by complaining, by showing no enthusiasm, etc.
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