put a damper on

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put a damper on 的定义

  1. 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

put a damper on

等同于 sadden

put a damper on

等同于 deter

put a damper on

等同于 dishearten

更多put a damper on例句

  1. To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
  2. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  3. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  4. Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
  5. Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
  6. He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
  7. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  8. This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
  9. Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
  10. Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.