wet blanket

When the wet blanket fell, he'd been on his way out of it.

Instead, they had got the wet blanket of social reform.

But there was no large wet blanket to be had.

Don't get me wrong, I love your mother, but she can be a real wet blanket.

She is not a cheerful person and has been a wet blanket all her life.

She would wrap herself and the children in wet blankets.

Emma's dress felt like a wet blanket, and she had never been so hot in her life.

It's like there was a wet blanket over my face all the time.

He would find some way to throw a wet blanket on our joy.

Yeah, I'm going to be the wet blanket that goes there.