Sentence examples for cold bucket from inspiring English sources

The cold bucket of water frequently poured on us doesn't make us feel welcome.

Under the open sky, across the street from the tower, Mrs. Das's sons take cold bucket baths each day.

Humbug!" When the subject of the Olympic Games comes up, I feel like Ebenezer Scrooge in his unreformed middle period, ready to douse the first signs of enthusiasm with a cold bucket of cynicism.

And she plays fair: both women are vaguely annoying, and both elicit sympathy, especially after Chung trots out their cloddish cousins and self-dramatizing aunt, whose fire-and-brimstone theatrics are eventually doused with a cold bucket of Kierkegaard.

Within five minutes, on his return from the Virginian wars, he had woken his late father's manservant, Jud Paynter, the ever-splendid Phil Davis, not with a warm greeting but a cold bucket of water, and his Jud-treatment didn't improve one whit, despite the latter taking a barrel of punches for the marster towards the end of the hour.

It feels like a cold bucket of ice thrown upon your head telling you to wake up.

For many British Asians, mangoes can evoke strong memories of extended family picnics in India, where mangoes stored in cold buckets of water are passionately fought over among cousins.

Ice-cold buckets of water before games, letting the grass grow long, moving the away dugout further back and putting extra sugar in the opposition's tea.

Rudisha's focus will be to fend off predatory attacks from Amos, who so thrillingly passed him on that ice-bucket cold night at Hampden Park.

Not ice-bucket cold, but cooler than normal summer room temperature.

Varela's goal came as a bucket of cold water.