Sentence examples for throw a wet blanket from inspiring English sources

"We don't throw a wet blanket over anyone," Torre said.

Would a potential recession throw a wet blanket on this comeback?

It's a great message for a human resources person who's been told to cut back but doesn't want to throw a wet blanket on the holiday season".

Deal with crapware developers individually, don't just throw a wet blanket on everyone.

My job is to throw a wet blanket on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) phones those new phones that let you "surf" the Web on the phone itself.

You know - right up until the religious exclamations at romantic moments throw a wet blanket over your desire.

On the day you manage to wrangle golfing superstar Jordan Spieth for your advert, Mother Nature throws a wet blanket on proceedings with a torrential downpour.

North Korea described a defector President Bush met with in the White House last week as "human trash" and said the "cheap charade" threw "a wet blanket" over efforts to restart talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

"Failure to get something done here will have the effect of throwing a wet blanket on the national debate," said Dr. Robert K. Ross, president of the California Endowment, a nonprofit health policy group.

Then Ryan Bonneville at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen threw a wet blanket on the border patrol bandwagon: As has been widely reported for several days now, Obama set a new deportation record in the last fiscal year (narrowly edging out the previous record, which also belonged to his administration).

"It kind of threw a wet blanket over everything," said Joseph Glorioso, president of the American Society of Gene Therapy and a molecular biologist at the University of Pittsburgh.