throw a wet blanket over/upon one's spirits
- throw a wet blanket over/upon one's spirits
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to distress somebody
Clare's restlessness was nothing new. To come the elder sister! To be a wet blanket! Impossible! (J. Galsworthy)
"Don't be such a damned old wet blanket," Dick said. "Think big, man, think big." (J. Braine)
This little pilgrimage threw quite a wet blanket upon his rising spirits. (Th. Dreiser)
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