wet blanket

I lay out my worries here not as a wet blanket, but because I am a worrier.

Aside from a blanket ban, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are nearly impossible to control.

Fidel jumped out and hopped into the ocean without getting wet.

Have you noticed there are some people who would love to put a big wet blanket on all of this?

After she “got her feet wet,” Knox began writing under her own name.

If those dry counties get wet, those border stores could find their revenue drying up.

He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.

Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!

He swerved as he passed it, and, looking, saw that it was a bundle wrapped in a striped blanket.

The farmer told him it was six miles; "but," he added, "you must ride sharp, or you will get a wet jacket before you reach it."

And, old ink pot, tuck a horse blanket under my chin, and rub me down with brickbats while I feed!