put a damper on 的定义
- Discourage, dishearten, deter, as in Grandpa's death put a damper on our Christmas holidays. This idiom employs the noun damper in the sense of “something that damps or depresses the spirits,” a usage dating from the mid-1700s.
put a damper on 近义词
等同于 sadden
等同于 deter
put a damper on 的近义词 36 个
- avert
- block
- dampen
- daunt
- discourage
- dissuade
- forestall
- frighten
- hinder
- impede
- intimidate
- obstruct
- preclude
- prevent
- prohibit
- restrain
- scare
- stop
- caution
- chill
- cool
- damp
- debar
- divert
- forfend
- obviate
- warn
- act like a wet blanket
- disadvise
- put off
- rule out
- shut out
- stave off
- talk out of
- throw cold water on
- turn off
put a damper on 的反义词 26 个
等同于 dishearten
更多put a damper on例句
- To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
- Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
- He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
- Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
- Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.