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.
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Don’t be a texting wet blanket Striking some particular tone is less important than matching your conversation partner’s energy.
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Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
Water Resistance Want to avoid a soggy, wet blanket?
—Erica Zazo, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
Data for the first half of 2022 from some provinces and cities indicate further drops in births compared with last year, as Covid restrictions have kept tens of millions of Chinese at a time cooped up in their apartments and put a wet blanket on economic activity across the country.
—Liyan Qi, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
As the vibrant Sun in your communication sector is smothered by wet blanket Saturn in your inhibited 12th house, your fears of being misunderstood could provoke you to clam up.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
The intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will be all over El Salvadoran banks, businesses, and other financial institutions like a wet blanket . . .
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 July 2021
Previous studies have established that tickling is mood-dependent—anxiety and unfamiliarity suppress it like a wet blanket.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
News of still-hot inflation was a wet blanket for markets, which had been holding out for signs that might nudge the Fed to put a brake on interest rate hikes.
—Heard Editors, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
That means a towel that is easy to clean with and wash, one that can take on plenty of moisture and not feel like, well, a wet blanket.
—Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
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Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
Water Resistance Want to avoid a soggy, wet blanket?
—Erica Zazo, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2023
Data for the first half of 2022 from some provinces and cities indicate further drops in births compared with last year, as Covid restrictions have kept tens of millions of Chinese at a time cooped up in their apartments and put a wet blanket on economic activity across the country.
—Liyan Qi, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022
As the vibrant Sun in your communication sector is smothered by wet blanket Saturn in your inhibited 12th house, your fears of being misunderstood could provoke you to clam up.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
The intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will be all over El Salvadoran banks, businesses, and other financial institutions like a wet blanket . . .
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 July 2021
Previous studies have established that tickling is mood-dependent—anxiety and unfamiliarity suppress it like a wet blanket.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
News of still-hot inflation was a wet blanket for markets, which had been holding out for signs that might nudge the Fed to put a brake on interest rate hikes.
—Heard Editors, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
That means a towel that is easy to clean with and wash, one that can take on plenty of moisture and not feel like, well, a wet blanket.
—Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
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First Known Use
1844, in the meaning defined above
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wet blanket
noun
: one that discourages or puts an end to enthusiasm or pleasure
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